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keycomicbooks · 3 years

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I will be posting books that I had a great time reading, in no particular order like Hyperspace A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku (1995)

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bookishliz · 4 years

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Down the TBR Hole 2.3

Being in my last week of the July-holiday, I can’t help but wonder where all the time has gone. The days and weeks blend into each other, turning into months, and lockdown has removed any external structures that used to influence the day-by-day. Finding the structure through my own self-discipline and motivation is not an easy task, but I try.

A part of what I enjoy with this challenge is…

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michiokaku · 3 years

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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

“Are there other dimensions beyond those of our everyday experience? Are there gateways to parallel universes? What happened before the first day of Creation? These types of questions are at the center of current scientific activity. Indeed, many physicists today believe that there are other dimensions beyond the four of our space-time, and that a unified vision of the various forces of nature can be achieved, if we consider that everything we see around us, from the trees to the stars are nothing but vibrations in hyperspace. Hyperspace theory - and its more recent derivation, superstring theory - is the eye of this revolution. In this book, Michio Kaku shows us a fascinating panorama, which completely changes our view of the cosmos, and takes us on a dazzling journey through new dimensions: wormholes connecting parallel universes, time machines, "baby universes" and more. Similar wonders are emerging in some pages in which everything is explained with elegant simplicity and where the mathematical formulation is replaced by imaginative illustrations that allow the problems to be visualized. The result is a very entertaining and surprising book, which even leaves behind the greatest fantasies of the old science fiction authors.” - Goodreads

This is only one of four NYT Bestsellers authoured by Dr. Kaku, but is easily the most popular due to it’s look at Sci-Fi concepts through a real physicist’s lens.

#Physics with Kaku

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gunnerpalace · 7 years

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Can you recommend me some books that you think everybody should read? They could be about the themes and categories you prefer. Thanks in advance.

Well. That’s a pretty broad question. I’ll limit it to five per category.

Non-Fiction

Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship - A historical account of a United States project in the 1950s and 1960s to build spaceships driven by atomic bombs. They were planning missions to one of Saturn’s moons (Enceladus) with a 400 meter diameter spaceship years before Apollo 11 ever landed.

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self - A comprehensive study on the state of how consciousness and the brain as a whole really works, as well as how certain phenomena such as “out of body experiences” arise from the same.

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 - A fairly comprehensive if rather speculative and possibly-too-optimistic projection of where technology is headed over the century, by an actual physicist in consultation with other experts.

Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension - A fun and easy-to-grasp history and explanation behind the quest for a physical theory that can describe everything.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Although this book is strongly derided by historians because in a way it tries to explain history without using history, that’s not really the point; the goal was to explain why events in prehistory set up the conditions that played out through history, and to describe the overarching trends behind the particular events.

Fiction

The Commonwealth Saga (Pandora’s Star, Judas Unchained) - A space opera series detailing humanity’s first contact with something of a twist: it involves the first true spaceship, as people get around through wormholes using trains. Rather novel ideas and an interesting universe to boot.

Firefall Series (Blindsight, Echopraxia) - A very dark sci-fi series with a lot of meditations on the nature of sapience and consciousness. (It’s how I first heard about The Ego Tunnel.) Makes a lot of ideas that shouldn’t work, do so, through very thoroughly researched science. (Humanity needs a first contact team, so who do they send? A soldier, a cyborg, a “zombie,” and a vampire.) You can read the first book for free courtesy of the author!

The Rifters Trilogy (Starfish, Maelstrom, Behemoth) - By the same author as the above, an even darker sci-fi series set on earth. A lot of talk about cellular biology, artificial life, and the grimmer motivations and psychologies of people. Read it if your outlook feels a bit too cheery. All three books can be read for free courtesy of the author!

Waterland - An English history teacher’s marriage dissolves during the height of the Cold War and he begins to try and understand it through history and geography, both personal and regional. A very interesting style of putting together a novel. (At one point there’s a chapter entirely about the history of human understanding of eels.) Worth reading for the odd structure alone.

The Things They Carried - A somewhat fictionalized account of the Vietnam War, contains a lot of interesting passages and stories and is overall a rather vivid and gripping read.

I could go on about sci-fi and some fantasy, but you’d have to come back for that.

#Asks

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joyfullynervousstrawberry · 6 years

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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Oxford Landmark Science) - ¿Hay otras dimensiones más allá de las de nuestra experiencia cotidiana? ¿Hay puertas de acceso a universos paralelos? Muchos físicos creen que existen otras dimensiones más allá de las cuatro de nuestro espacio-tiempo, y que puede alcanzarse una visión unificada de las

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bookishliz · 5 years

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Down The TBR Hole #5

Welcome to the nonfiction edition on my To-Read shelf. Completely unplanned, but the next 10 books I’m purging through are all coincidently works of nonfiction. So off we go!

How this works:

Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf.

Order on ascending date added.

Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books

Read the synopses of the books

Decide: keep it or should it go?

The To-Read…

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keycomicbooks · 3 years

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I will be posting books that I had a great time reading, in no particular order like Hyperspace A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku (1995)

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