Have you ever wondered what happened before the Big Bang, or how we would colonize Mars, or what an alien invasion might really be like? Astronomer Bob Berman has, and in Cosmic Adventure, a collection of twenty-six profound to outrageous essays, he takes readers on a mind-bending tour of the universe, including our own planet Earth.From the most extraordinary cosmic phenomena to the basics of the natural world, Berman challenges us to look at the...

In this essay collection, a noted astronomer reveals the bizarre and astonishingly true scientific facts that determine the world around us."Touches on a dizzying array of subjects, including UV rays, inert gases, fossils, meteorites, microwaves, rainbows . . . Like many a good teacher, Berman uses humor to entertain his audience and liven things up." — Los Angeles TimesBob Berman is motivated by a straightforward ...

Sitting still in a quiet room, you might just be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents swirl about you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you are on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the speed of sound.In Zoom, Bob Berman takes a thrilling tour around the wondrous and myriad motions that shape every aspect of the universe. Spanning astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology and ...

Looking at the night sky, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all quiet up there in space. But you’d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the giant Andromeda galaxy.Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Berman presents a destructive history of ...

The universe is literally made of lightOne hundred years after they were written, Marie Curie’s notebooks are still too radioactive to handleIn 1974 we sent a message to star cluster M13. If any aliens respond promptly, we’ll hear from them in 52000From world-altering discoveries of the past to the wonderful science of the present, Bob Berman zooms across the universe to tell the story of invisible light. He reveals what microwaves from sm...

A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in betweenThe overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70 billion trillion suns had non-attention-getting births and are burning through their nuclear fuel in steady, predictable fashion. But when cosmic violence does unfold, it changes the ...

A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in betweenThe overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70 billion trillion suns had non-attention-getting births and are burning through their nuclear fuel in steady, predictable fashion. But when cosmic violence does unfold, it changes the ...

From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move.If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of ...

How much do you know about the radiation all around you?Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of it will kill you, but without it you wouldn't live a year.From beloved popula...

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world — a US News & World Report cover story called him a “genius" and a “renegade thinker," even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe.Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ult...

森林中的一棵樹倒下，如果旁邊沒有人看見，它是否發出了聲音？宇宙存在的先決條件是，「觀察者」必須存在你的意識決定了宇宙「二十一世紀愛因斯坦」頂尖生物學家、幹細胞研究先驅羅伯・蘭薩╳ 知名天文學家鮑伯．博曼以「生命宇宙論」重新詮釋宇宙的基本原理宇宙的誕生，絕非始於隨機的碰撞與爆炸......是生命與意識形塑了宇宙！回應《時間簡史》，21世紀人類無法迴避的革命性宇宙論生命與意識，才是了解宇宙的基礎；我們感覺到的真實，是與意識有關的過程！物體是否真實存在？如果沒有看、思、聽等各種各樣的感知，我們還剩下什麼？少了生物，又怎麼知道任何事物是否真的存在？「森林中的一棵樹倒下，如果旁邊沒有人看見，它是否發出了聲音？」事實上，如果沒有觀察者、耳朵和大腦，倒下的樹只會帶來空氣的波動。

Los autores nos invitan a una apasionante aventura intelectual en la que se cuestionará todo lo que creemos saber sobre la vida, la muerte, el universo y la propia realidad. El primer paso consiste en reconocer que nuestro actual modelo de realidad no encaja con lo que nos muestran ciertos descubrimientos científicos recientes. A modo de ejemplo, aunque la ciencia y el modelo científico pueden calcular con bastante precisión la proporción de materia y energía oscura del universo, se ven in...