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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
from Little, Brown and Company
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The most important paragraph in this book is on page 422:
"Sceptics will point out that everything I have told you about the quantum properties of black holes -- from entropy, temperature, and Hawking radiation to Black Hole Complementarity and the Holographic Principle -- is pure theory, with... more info

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Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA
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Richard C. Hoagland just loves to bash NASA. (aka "Never A Straight Answer", as he is so fond of saying over and over and over....) But the truth is, without NASA he would be nowhere. Without such a convenient scapegoat to blame, he might actually have to provide annoying things like "proof" for his... more info

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Icarus at the Edge of Time
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Yuk! What a waste of $13, why can't we give it a zero because thats what this book is!

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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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There were parts of this book that were difficult to grasp, but what I liked about it was it's explanation of quantum foam and hidden dimensions. Quantum foam is a general concept in physicis that I had heard of, but didn't really understand. The author explained the meaning of it in a clear and... more info

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The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It
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The description of the politics behind the scoping and budgeting of the Hubble will be of great value to managers of scientific and technical programs. Mangement professors should consider assigning it to students.
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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If I had to sum up Stephen Hawking's The Universe In A Nutshell in one word, it would be brilliant. In this masterpiece Hawking somehow takes the most, in my opinion, complicated and confusing science topics and breaks them down into a reader-friendly showcase of knowledge and love of... more info

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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
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I highly recommend the reading of this impressive book. It is able to embrace almost all of the mathematical background a serious theoretical physicist should have...and it does so in a both deeply and understandable fashion. It is suitable for anyone interested in knowing why something arising from... more info

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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science
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"It is written on the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, on the depths of the emerald seas and on every grain of sand in the vast desert that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream of an inward and invisible reality." - Sufi saying.
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The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change
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Who would have thought it. Exploding stars create gamma rays that bombard us constantly and the rate that they come in coorelates to global warming (and cooling). Wow.
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Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology
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The secret history of antigravity experimentation from Tesla to the B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber is covered in a survey of advanced gravity-control technologies under secret military development for decades. Numerous field-propulsion devices and technologies that have huge thrust-to-power ratios... more info

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