Ten Billion Tomorrows

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466861923

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Ten Billion Tomorrows by Brian Clegg Pdf

Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the profession and have shaped our futures. Science fiction doesn't set out to predict what will happen - it's far more about how human beings react to "What if?..." - but it is fascinating to see how science fiction and reality sometimes converge, sometimes take extraordinarily different paths. Ten Billion Tomorrows brings to life a whole host of science fiction topics, from the virtual environment of The Matrix and the intelligent computer HAL in 2001, to force fields, ray guns and cyborgs. We discover how science fiction has excited us with possibilities, whether it is Star Trek's holodeck inspiring makers of iconic video games Doom and Quake to create the virtual interactive worlds that transformed gaming, or the strange physics that has made real cloaking devices possible. Mixing remarkable science with the imagination of our greatest science fiction writers, Ten Billion Tomorrows will delight science fiction lovers and popular science devotees alike.

Author : Andrew May
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319898308

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Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War by Andrew May Pdf

The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen. Yet not everyone was taken by surprise. From super-powerful atomic weapons to rockets and space travel, readers of science fiction (SF) had seen it all before. Sometimes reality lived up to the SF vision, at other times it didn’t. The hydrogen bomb was as terrifyingly destructive as anything in fiction, while real-world lasers didn't come close to the promise of the classic SF ray gun. Nevertheless, when the scientific Cold War culminated in the Strategic Defence Initiative of the 1980s, it was so science-fictional in its aspirations that the media dubbed it “Star Wars”. This entertaining account, offering a plethora of little known facts and insights from previously classified military projects, shows how the real-world science of the Cold War followed in the footsteps of SF – and how the two together changed our perception of both science and scientists, and paved the way to the world we live in today.

Author : Andrew May
Publisher : Springer
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030133146

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Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science by Andrew May Pdf

People are used to seeing “fake physics” in science fiction – concepts like faster-than-light travel, antigravity and time travel to name a few. The fiction label ought to be a giveaway, but some SF writers – especially those with a background in professional science – are so adept at “technobabble” that it can be difficult to work out what is fake and what is real. To confuse matters further, Isaac Asimov’s 1948 piece about the fictitious time-travelling substance thiotimoline was written, not as a short story, but in the form of a spoof research paper. The boundaries between fact and fiction can also be blurred by physicists themselves - sometimes unintentionally, sometimes with tongue-in-cheek, sometimes to satirize perceived weaknesses in research practices. Examples range from hoaxes aimed at exposing poor editorial standards in academic publications, through “thought experiments” that sound like the plot of a sci-fi movie to April Fools’ jokes. Even the latter may carry a serious message, whether about the sociology of science or poking fun at legitimate but far-out scientific hypotheses. This entertaining book is a joyous romp exploring the whole spectrum of fake physics – from science to fiction and back again.

Author : Michael Morwood
Publisher : Twenty-Third Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0896227243

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Tomorrow's Catholic by Michael Morwood Pdf

Tomorrow's Catholic offers a fascinating outline of contemporary cosmology that connects the message of Jesus and the spirituality of Pentecost to the world we live in today. A special focus is on expressing ancient truths in contemporary language.

Author : Raj Aseervatham
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000284911

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Leading Tomorrow by Raj Aseervatham Pdf

Maintaining good business leadership in a world of rapidly changing expectations levied by customers, investors, society, governments and employees is a challenge. These stakeholders are increasingly making choices about if or how they support businesses – through the purchase of their products and services, shareholdings and financing, regulatory approvals, and even experiences working for them – based on not just what a business does, but how it does it. We are seeing shifts in stakeholder sentiments that manifest in a greater expectation that businesses work with society in addressing society’s contemporary concerns. This greater good that businesses bring is rewarded by a greater brand awareness, connection and loyalty, which in turn provides businesses with an underlying strategic advantage over the competition with its customers, investors and other stakeholders. But this greater good cannot be faked with PR and bought media; in an increasingly connected world populated by an increasingly savvy millennial stakeholder base, authentic leadership and its ability to effect cultural shifts in the DNA of businesses is essential. Failure to do so will likely result in shorter and less successful tenures of Board members and C-suite leaders as this business trend spreads. This book looks at how the emerging generation of leaders must change paradigms and transform their employees to do more than just operate a business. It examines how to effect culture shifts that are necessary to innovate businesses so that they simultaneously meet market needs while meeting stakeholder expectations on concerns as varied as ethical business conduct, labor practices, climate change, responsible use of diminishing natural resources and contribution to socio-economic challenges in their market catchments. These are perspectives and skills that are still glossed over, by academic and professional institutions, as they develop the leaders of the future. Essentially, this book: • Articulates the strategic business case for doing good in a good business; the why, and where this trajectory is leading • Provides strategies to lead authentically on the array of issues that provide key stakeholders – customers, investors, governments and employees – with a greater reason to engage with and build loyalty to the business • Provides strategies to energize and spark innovation among his/her employees in an organization on these issues so that transformative power is harnessed.

Author : Donald Wilson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781410796288

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The Winds of Tomorrow by Donald Wilson Pdf

A TEENAGERS LIFE CAN BE DIFFICULT, HOLDING UNTOLD OBSTACLES Teenagers you can make it! Always seek God first and acknowledge him in all your ways, He shall direct your path. This triumphing story tells how a teenage girl struggles to overcome family stress, peer pressure, molestation, fornication, teen pregnancy, and abortion. She was taken in by the struggles of being a teenager, yet she miraculously survives and lives to share her story in hope that it will emphasize to other teenagers, the importance of keeping or developing a close bonded relationship with GOD. Experience her journey, witness how the Lord helped her to overcome and remarkably turns her life around in spite of the obstacles set by Satan to destroy her youth. Don't forget the Press to Pray to Praise!

Author : Pete V. Domenici,Senator Pete V Domenici,Blythe J. Lyons,Julian J. Steyn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742541894

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A Brighter Tomorrow by Pete V. Domenici,Senator Pete V Domenici,Blythe J. Lyons,Julian J. Steyn Pdf

The senior Senator from New Mexico, Pete V. Domenici, has written a thoughtful assessment of the progress Americans have made in their efforts to bring the benefits of nuclear power to mankind. He outlines what went wrong and why, and in this noble quest, what we must now do to recover from and repudiate past blunders. Senator Domenici has been called Congress' chief apostle for nuclear power and in this book he shares his vision and passion for a renewed commitment, by this nation, and the rest of the world, to the dreams that nuclear energy can help us fulfill. It is also a book about what kind of world our grandchildren could inhabit if we fail in making and keeping such a commitment. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Erika Erdmann,David Stover
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313003752

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A Mind for Tomorrow by Erika Erdmann,David Stover Pdf

Stover and Erdmann deal with the crises confronting today's world and argue that solutions will come not from new technology nor in retreating to an idealized agrarian past, but by overhauling the beliefs that structure society. They link the dilemmas facing civilization to a fundamental rift running through society—one between religion and the humanities, rooted in subjective experience, and science, which emphasizes objective knowledge. They suggest a promising way of closing this rift found in the work of Nobel Laureate and neuroscientist Roger W. Sperry. They examine Sperry's lifework, including his famous split- brain research and show how it led him to propose a theory of consciousness that challenged science's dismissal of subjective experience as irrelevant. By seeing consciousness as an emergent, causal property of brain function, Sperry reinstated subjective experience into the scientific worldview, laid the foundation for the cognitive revolution that has since swept through psychology, and created a means by which science can help create ethical systems better able to deal with today's challenges. Stover and Erdmann conclude by looking at ways in which others have built upon Sperry's ideas, and they hold out the hope that, with the creation of belief systems more compatible with science, a way out of humanity's current troubles may indeed be found. The result is an excursion through a world of exciting ideas, and a book sure to absorb anyone interested in the fate of our species—and how that fate might be influenced for the better. Students, researchers, scholars, and concerned citizens particularly interested in cognitive psychology, science and society, and futures studies will find the book intriguing.

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785787485

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Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World by Brian Clegg Pdf

The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works – but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see how each breakthrough has influenced our lives. It is a unique selection. Focusing on practical impact means there is no room for Stephen Hawking's work on black holes, or the discovery of the Higgs boson. Instead we have the relatively little-known Rudolf Clausius (thermodynamics) and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (superconductivity), while Albert Einstein is included not for his theories of relativity but for the short paper that gave us E=mc2 (nuclear fission). Later chapters feature transistors, LEDs and the Internet.

Author : Norman Thomas,John Nevin Sayre,Anna Rochester,Devere Allen,Kirby Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : UOMDLP:ace8501:0011.001

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The World Tomorrow by Norman Thomas,John Nevin Sayre,Anna Rochester,Devere Allen,Kirby Page Pdf

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 1250024226

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How to Build a Time Machine by Brian Clegg Pdf

A pop science look at time travel technology, from Einstein to Ronald Mallett to present day experiments. Forget fiction: time travel is real. In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the fascinating world of physics and the remarkable possibilities of real time travel that emerge from quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. With the fascinating paradoxes of time travel echoing in our minds will we realize that travel into the future might never be possible? Or will we realize there is no limit on what can be achieved, and take on this ultimate challenge? Only time will tell.

Author : Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Hydrogen as fuel
ISBN : CORNELL:31924107956751

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Hydrogen Tomorrow by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781250039446

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Final Frontier by Brian Clegg Pdf

Star Trek was right — there is only one final frontier, and that is space... Human beings are natural explorers, and nowhere is this frontier spirit stronger than in the United States of America. It almost defines the character of the US. But the Earth is running out of frontiers fast. In Brian Clegg's The Final Frontier we discover the massive challenges that face explorers, both human and robotic, to uncover the current and future technologies that could take us out into the galaxy and take a voyage of discovery where no one has gone before... but one day someone will. In 2003, General Wesley Clark set the nation a challenge to produce the technology that would enable new pioneers to explore the galaxy. That challenge is tough — the greatest we've ever faced. But taking on the final frontier does not have to be a fantasy. In a time of recession, escapism is always popular — and what greater escape from the everyday can there be than the chance of leaving Earth's bounds and exploring the universe? With a rich popular culture heritage in science fiction movies, books and TV shows, this is a subject that entertains and informs in equal measure.

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785783210

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Gravitational Waves by Brian Clegg Pdf

On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever. Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on electromagnetic radiation: visible light, radio, X-rays and the rest. But gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space and time – are unrelenting, passing through barriers that stop light dead. At the two 4-kilometre long LIGO observatories in the US, scientists developed incredibly sensitive detectors, capable of spotting a movement 100 times smaller than the nucleus of an atom. In 2015 they spotted the ripples produced by two black holes spiralling into each other, setting spacetime quivering. This was the first time black holes had ever been directly detected – and it promises far more for the future of astronomy. Brian Clegg presents a compelling story of human technical endeavour and a new, powerful path to understand the workings of the universe.

Author : Stephen Emmott
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780345806468

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Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott Pdf

Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a nightmare. Stephen Emmott, a scientist whose lab is at the forefront of research into complex natural systems, sounds the alarm. TEN BILLION is a snapshot of our planet, and our species, approaching a crisis, and a stark analysis of where this leaves us. TEN BILLION is not another climate book. TEN BILLION is a book about us.