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Title: How Old Is the Universe?

Author: David A. Weintraub

Narrator: Brad Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe? tells the incredible story of how astronomers solved one of the most compelling mysteries in science and, along the way, introduces listeners to fundamental concepts and cutting-edge advances in modern astronomy.

The age of our universe poses a deceptively simple question, and its answer carries profound implications for science, religion, and philosophy. David Weintraub traces the centuries-old quest by astronomers to fathom the secrets of the nighttime sky. Describing the achievements of the visionaries whose discoveries collectively unveiled a fundamental mystery, he shows how many independent lines of inquiry and much painstakingly gathered evidence, when fitted together like pieces in a cosmic puzzle, led to the long-sought answer. Astronomers don't believe the universe is 13.7 billion years old - they know it. You will too after listening to this book.

By focusing on one of the most crucial questions about the universe and challenging readers to understand the answer, Weintraub familiarizes listeners with the ideas and phenomena at the heart of modern astronomy, including red giants and white dwarfs, cepheid variable stars and supernovae, clusters of galaxies, gravitational lensing, dark matter, dark energy and the accelerating universe - and much more.

Offering a unique historical approach to astronomy, How Old Is the Universe? sheds light on the inner workings of scientific inquiry and reveals how astronomers grapple with deep questions about the physical nature of our universe.

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Title: A User's Guide to the Universe

Subtitle: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty

Author: Dave Goldberg, Jeff Blomquist

Narrator: Mark F. Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-12

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 160 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

Answers to science's most enduring questions from "Can I break the light-speed barrier like on Star Trek?" and "Is there life on other planets?" to "What is empty space made of?"

This is an indispensable guide to physics that offers readers an overview of the most popular physics topics written in an accessible, irreverent, and engaging manner while still maintaining a tone of wry skepticism. Even the novice will be able to follow along, as the topics are addressed using plain English and (almost) no equations. Veterans of popular physics will also find their nagging questions addressed, like whether the universe can expand faster than light, and for that matter, what the universe is expanding into anyway.

Gives a one-stop tour of all the big questions that capture the public imagination including string theory, quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and the beginning of time.

Explains serious science in an entertaining, conversational, and easy-to-understand way.

Includes dozens of delightfully groan-worthy cartoons that explain everything from special relativity to Dark Matter.

Filled with fascinating information and insights, this book will both deepen and transform your understanding of the universe.

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Title: Science Set Free

Subtitle: 10 Paths to New Discovery

Author: Rupert Sheldrake

Narrator: Rupert Sheldrake, Jane Collingwood, David Timson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-12

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 270 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

The best-selling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern-day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible.

In Science Set Free, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity.

According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls.

But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns while societies around the world are paying the price.

In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the 10 fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery.

Science Set Free will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible.

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Title: The Day the World Discovered the Sun

Subtitle: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus

Author: Mark Anderson

Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

On June 3, 1769, the planet Venus briefly passed across the face of the sun in a cosmic alignment that occurs twice per century. Anticipation of the rare celestial event sparked a worldwide competition among aspiring global superpowers, each sending their own scientific expeditions to far-flung destinations to time the planets trek. These pioneers used the Venus Transit to discover the physical dimensions of the solar system and refine the methods of discovering longitude at sea. In this fast-paced narrative, Mark Anderson reveals the stories of three Venus Transit voyages--to the heart of the Arctic, the New World, and the Pacific - that risked every mortal peril of a candlelit age. With time running out, each expedition struggles to reach its destination a quest that races to an unforgettable climax on a momentous summer day when the universe suddenly became much larger than anyone had dared to imagine.

The Day the World Discovered the Sun tells an epic story of the enduring human desire to understand our place in the universe.

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Title: Gravity's Engines

Subtitle: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos

Author: Caleb Scharf

Narrator: Caleb Scharf

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-12

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 153 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

Weve long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it comes to an end. Often billions of times more massive than the Sun, they lurk in the inner sanctum of almost every galaxy of stars in the universe. Theyre mysterious chasms so destructive and unforgiving that not even light can escape their deadly wrath.

Recent research, however, has led to a cascade of new discoveries that have revealed an entirely different side to black holes. As the astrophysicist Caleb Scharf reveals in Gravitys Engines, these chasms in space-time dont just vacuum up everything that comes near them; they also spit out huge beams and clouds of matter. Black holes blow bubbles.

With clarity and keen intellect, Scharf masterfully explains how these bubbles profoundly rearrange the cosmos around them. Engaging with our deepest questions about the universe, he takes us on an intimate journey through the endlessly colorful place we call our galaxy and reminds us that the Milky Way sits in a special place in the cosmic zoo - a "sweet spot" of properties. Is it coincidental that we find ourselves here at this place and time? Could there be a deeper connection between the nature of black holes and their role in the universe and the phenomenon of life? We are, after all, made of the stuff of stars.

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Title: Inexplicable Space

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrator: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-12

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

Scientists have made astounding progress in their grasp of the universe. But what remains to be understood? Investigate some perplexing aspects of space that science has uncovered in the last half-century. Learn about the mysterious trajectory of the Pioneer spacecraft (known as the Pioneer anomaly). Explore two of the longest-standing problems in astrophysics: dark matter and dark energy. And even try to map the shape of space-time.

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Title: The Logic of Microspace

Subtitle: Technology and Management of Minimum-Cost Space Missions

Author: Rick Fleeter

Narrator: Cindy Lucas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-12

Publisher: Open Book Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

The Logic of Microspace is three books in one. The technologies underlying small space were the subject of Ricks widely acclaimed first book, Micro Space Craft, which sold out its first printing by word of mouth. This highly understandable, entertaining book, called the only comedic "page-turner" ever written about aerospace engineering, has been thoroughly updated and is the first book within The Logic of Microspace.

The second book within this trilogy-inside-one-"cover" brings the same understandable, humorous, fast-reading and informative style of the technical sections to a complementary book on minimum size and cost mission management and the philosophical and often surprising psychological underpinnings of minimum-cost space missions. The third part of The Logic of Microspace is a dramatic novella, possibly the first in any aerospace text, describing several alluring opportunities for benefiting humanity and the space industry via low-cost satellites and space missions.

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Title: The Unobservable Universe

Subtitle: A Paradox-Free Framework for Understanding the Universe

Author: Scott M. Tyson

Narrator: Scott M. Tyson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-12

Publisher: Galaxia Way

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

Were ancient Greek philosophers right about reality being only an illusion? What was really the biggest blunder of Einstein's life? Is everything we've been taught about the universe incorrect? In The Unobservable Universe, visionary scientist and engineer Scott M. Tyson successfully unravels cosmology from the level of rocket science and brings it down to Earth, demystifying the universe in terms that laymen can comprehend and enjoy, splitting atoms but not hairs on this magical mystery tour of the outback of time and space.

Tapping nearly three millennia of scientific philosophy and drawing upon his three decades as a prolific researcher, brilliant scientist and inspiring writer, Tyson artfully deconstructs key misunderstandings that modern science inadvertently continues to embrace - unraveling the inconsistencies and paradoxes emerging from contemporary science and science philosophy, dissecting complex principles and debunking long-held premises with illustrative examples to expose vital new insights. His provocative theories, supported with pragmatic anecdotes and symbolic metaphors, translate quantum physics into a master blueprint for all cosmology readers to examine, explore and contemplate.

Tyson effectively illustrates the meaning of perceptions in a way that will prompt scientists to fundamentally rethink preconceived notions and consider new possibilities. He guides readers in a bold, new direction that provides a coherent framework in which they can truly understand the universe and the underlying Theory of Everything. Informative and illuminating, this groundbreaking book's lively style provides an enlightening and entertaining page-turner, laced with a brilliant combination of compelling theory, solid research, simple analogy, contagious enthusiasm and enough humor to break a smile on the faces of even the most serious cosmologists. Tyson propels readers toward a new state of thinking, with a greater awareness and understanding of the mysteries of the universe that more accurately reflects its truths and realities. As a benchmark for cosmology, The Unobservable Universe will forever change the way we look at our world.

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Title: The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery

Author: Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Richards

Narrator: Todd Barsness

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-11

Publisher: Regnery Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

Is Earth merely an insignificant speck in a vast and meaningless universe? On the contrary: The Privileged Planet shows that this cherished assumption of materialism is dead wrong. In this provocative book, Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards present a staggering array of evidence that exposes the hollowness of this modern dogma. They demonstrate that our planet is exquisitely fit not only to support life, but also to give us the best view of the universe, as if Earth were designed both for life and for scientific discovery. Readers are taken on a scientific odyssey from a history of tectonic plates, to the wonders of water and solar eclipses, to our location in the Milky Way, to the laws that govern the universe, and to the beginning of cosmic time. The Privileged Planet contains astounding findings that should lead any individual to reevaluate and even to reconsider our very purpose on what so many have dismissed as nothing more than an accident of cosmic evolution.

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Title: The Source Field Investigations

Subtitle: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations behind the 2012 Prophecies

Author: David Wilcock

Narrator: David Wilcock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 782 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy

Publisher's Summary:

A stunning synthesis of hidden science and lost prophecies, The Source Field Investigations exposes many great secrets: DNA transformation, consciousness science, wormholes, stargate travel, sacred geometry, ancient conspiracies, multidimensional time, the Maya calendar, and a stunning new model of galactic energy fields triggering mental, biological, and spiritual evolution. More than two million people have seen David Wilcocks incredible tour of the 2012 prophecies in his Internet documentary, The 2012 Enigma. Now, he expands his vision with a cutting-edge investigation into alternative sciences with deep insights into what is coming in our future. Unlike the apoca-lyptic viewpoints depicted in big-budget disaster films, Wilcock believes that 2012 will be a water-mark for widespread acceptance of a greater reality - and in his book, he lays out many of the blueprints for such a Golden Age.

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