Engineering Physics

Escucha ahora la biografía definitiva de Albert Einstein, uno de los iconos del siglo XX y su mayor genio.

Have you ever wondered what the next century bodes for humanity? Then keep listening... As mankind seeks to guide its own evolution and create intelligent machines, we stand at the brink of doing something no other living being has ever done before. The power to prolong life far beyond natural limits and beat back death itself. The ability to control computers and machines with our minds, and even merge with them. We are poised to become gods.

Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments - drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy - that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally.

For most of human history, people have asked what the world is made of. Atoms, said the ancients. Particles and fields, said the moderns. Vibrating strings, said the late twentieth century. Each answer named some kind of substance — a stuff out of which everything is built. Each answer ran, in the end, into the same wall: a list of unsolved problems that could not be addressed without inventing more substances, more particles, more dimensions of stuff. The framework presented in this book takes a different route.

For a century we have been told two contradictory things about information. The first is that the universe is secretly made of it—that beneath the atoms there are only bits, that reality is at bottom a kind of code. The second is that "information physics" is fashionable hand-waving, a buzzword dressed up as a discipline. Both verdicts miss what is actually the case, and the truth is stranger and simpler than either. Information is not a substance the world is built from.

Expand Your Horizons: The Mandela Effect takes you on a journey into one of the most captivating mysteries of modern times—shared false memories that challenge our understanding of truth, memory, and reality itself. Why do millions of people vividly recall events that seem to have never happened? Is the Mandela Effect simply a glitch in how our minds reconstruct the past, or does it reveal something deeper—an interconnectedness between consciousness, alternate dimensions, and the very fabric of existence?

In 1695, Isaac Newton already renowned as the greatest mind of his agemade a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for 30 years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majestys Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner.

From Beethoven's connection to plumbing to why rotten eggs smell like sulfur, the technical explanations included in this scientific primer tackle 99 chemistry-related questions and provide answers designed to inform and entertain. What jewelry metal is prohibited in some European countries? What does Miss Piggy have to do with the World Cup? How can a cockroach be removed from a human ear? The quirky information offered incorporates scientific savvy, practical advice, and amusing anecdotes.

Bloomsbury presents Sticky written and read by Laurie Winkless. You are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down; the effect is harder to ignore in water. When you hit the road, whether powered by pedal or engine, you rely on grip to keep...

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and physicist. In his work On Electricity, the prodigious inventory describes the development and influence of electricity.

Washington, 24. Juni 1947: Ein Hitzeblitz am wolkenlosen Himmel über dem Mount Rainier verändert das Weltbild des Amateurpiloten Kenneth Arnold für immer. Neun scheibenförmige, gleißende Objekte jagen mit unfassbaren 2700 Stundenkilometern an ihm vorbei – wie Untertassen, die über das Wasser hüpfen. Es ist die Geburtsstunde eines Begriffs, der eine weltweite Manie auslösen sollte: die „fliegende Untertasse". In dieser Folge von Erzähl mir alles: Geschichte knöpfen sich die Hosts Jasmin Kröger und Robert Rauh die Area 51 vor.

What is the true cost of mankind's misuse of atomic power? In Atomic Suicide, Walter and Lao Russell present a bold and timeless warning: humanity's reckless pursuit of nuclear energy is not only a scientific crisis but a spiritual one. First published in the mid-20th century, this prophetic work speaks directly to the 21st century's most pressing dilemmas—climate instability, technological hubris, and the fragile balance of life on Earth.

Have you ever known something was coming long before it happened, yet still felt unable to stop it? A relationship was clearly cooling. A health problem was building. A job was drifting toward trouble. A market was flashing warning signs. The direction was visible. The outcome felt closer every day. And yet your ability to change the path seemed weak, delayed, or strangely out of reach. Forecasting Without Power is a serious popular science book about that exact experience.

In The Labyrinth of Logic, science communicator Serena Quillan invites you on a journey through ten of the most bewildering and thought-provoking paradoxes in philosophy and science. These are not merely intellectual riddles, but profound challenges to the very foundations of knowledge, identity, time, consciousness, and reality itself.

The universe is a vast, mysterious, and incredibly cool place. It’s filled with things so strange and wonderful they can make your head spin. From the tiniest particles buzzing around beneath the surface of reality to the largest structures stretching across billions of light-years, the cosmos is packed with surprises. And the more we learn, the more we realize just how much we don’t know. When you glance up at the night sky, you’re not just looking at stars. You’re peering into the deep past, through millions or even billions of years.

In this stunning new volume, Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: Super-symmetric particles, super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. These theories are not only untrue; they are not even science. They are fairy-tale physics: Fantastical, bizarre and often outrageous, perhaps even confidence-trickery. This book provides a much-needed antidote.

What exactly made the earth round? How do boomerangs turn around mid-air? And why do cats always land on their feet? “A basic scientific concept receives long overdue attention” (Kirkus Reviews) in this “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) new book from the masterful author of The Age of...

Книга британского физика и философа Дэвида Дойча, одного из создателей концепции квантовых вычислений, наглядно демонстрирует, что эпоха великих философских систем вовсе не осталась в прошлом. Автор выстраивает целостный и согласующийся с научными знаниями ответ на один из самых фундаментальных философских вопросов: какова подлинная природа реальности.

Unlock the Secrets of the Quantum World—No PhD Required! Are you fascinated by the mysteries of the universe but overwhelmed by complex scientific jargon? "Quantum Physics for Beginners" by Adrian Kepler is your clear and engaging gateway into one of the most mind-blowing fields of modern science. Whether you're a curious mind, a science enthusiast, or a complete newcomer, this beginner-friendly guide explains the fundamentals of quantum physics in a way that’s both understandable and exciting.

Complex theories are meticulously unpacked and brought to life through vivid examples and crystal-clear explanations, including: The origins of quantum theory and revolutionary ideas from pioneers like Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Schrödinger. Foundational quantum mysteries like wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, and quantum entanglement