Physics

Wenn sich die Menschen früher die Natur nicht erklären konnten, haben sie Mythen erfunden. Heute wissen wir es besser: Nicht Götter und Geister bestimmen die Welt, sondern Gleichungen und Gesetze. Und doch klammern sich viele lieber an Mythen, wenn die Wissenschaft schlechte Nachrichten hat. So wie die Nachricht von der Erderwärmung. In dieser Ausgabe von „Erzähl mir alles: Physik" entlarvt das Physiker-Team die hartnäckigsten Fehlinformationen über den Klimawandel und die Energiewende.

America’s favorite astrophysicist has written the most entertaining and universally appealing book of his stellar career: a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors, an exploration of how it might happen, and a cultural history of our fascination with extraterrestrials. “Ever since...

FOR NON-EXPERTS: Get an accessible introduction to quantum computing as a mathematician explains quantum algorithms, quantum entanglement, and more. Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics and computer science!

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.

A young queer millennial physicist unveils some of the most mind-bending physics concepts in the universe—and uses them to illuminate their own fascinating life story “I see physics everywhere,” Karmela Padavic-Callaghan writes. “It offers itself to me when I try to make sense of all the...

Thousands remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s. He didn't. He was released in 1990 and lived until 2013. Every record confirms it. Thousands remember "Berenstein Bears." Every book says "Berenstain." Always has. Thousands remember a cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom logo. It never existed. What if they're not wrong? What if they're remembering something that was changed? The Mandela Effect looks harmless. Misspelled book titles, altered logos, misquoted movies. Nothing important. But maybe we only notice the harmless changes.

For half a century, Vega was the most trusted star in astronomy—the zero point of the brightness scale, the calibration standard for every major telescope, the benchmark of stellar normalcy. Then, in 2006, two independent teams of astronomers discovered that everything we believed about it was wrong. Vega is not a calm, slowly spinning star.

Imagine that time is not a river. What if your life is not a moving line, but a complete shape. In The Volumetric Time Model, Ralph Clayton invites you to rethink time as physics already does, not as a ticking present that vanishes, but as a finite volume where past, present, and future coexist inside one globally consistent reality. From that viewpoint, the strange feeling that the future is already decided is not superstition, it is what it feels like to live inside a fixed structure while only receiving information a little at a time.

In previous audiobooks, I have put forth a new theory of time - in that time flows about the universe in waves. This has not been proven yet, but I'm confident it will be some day since everything else in the universe flows or comes out of wave energy - the odds are very good that time does as well.

This book challenges the centuries-old pursuit of a final theory in physics by revealing why reality resists scale-independent description. Drawing on developments in effective field theory, renormalization, and the philosophy of science, it argues that physical laws are not universal absolutes but layered tools adapted to context. With clarity and precision, it explores the limits of unification, the power of pragmatic models, and the intellectual maturity required to live with structural incompleteness.

The universe is vast, silent, and filled with mysteries that continue to challenge everything we think we know. Strange Mysteries Of The Universe takes you on a fascinating journey through the most intriguing and unexplained phenomena of the cosmos —from the invisible matter holding galaxies together to the powerful gravity of black holes that bend space and time itself. This audiobook explores deep cosmic questions: What lies beyond the observable universe? Are parallel universes real? How do neutron stars survive in extreme conditions? And what does the future of the universe look like?

В мире науки есть множество явлений, которые кажутся невероятными, но мы вынуждены в них верить. Такие концепции, как корпускулярно-волновой дуализм света, бросают вызов привычному для нас пониманию реальности. Мы не можем увидеть темную материю, хотя она, по утверждению ученых, составляет 90% массы Вселенной. Большой взрыв—еще один пример: никто не был его свидетелем, но наука полагается на его следы как на основу современной космологии.

Известный физик Митио Каку исследует кажущиеся сегодня неправдоподобными технологии, явления или приборы с точки зрения возможности их воплощения в будущем. Рассказывая о нашем ближайшем будущем, ученый доступным языком говорит о том, как устроена Вселенная. Что такое большой взрыв и черные дыры, фазеры и антивещество.

Die größte Täuschung der Menscheitsgeschichte! Was, wenn die atemberaubenden Bilder der Erde aus dem All, die Mondlandung und die endlosen Raumfahrt-Missionen nur raffinierte Hollywood-Inszenierungen sind?

We have long treated uncertainty as a flaw to be eliminated—a gap in knowledge, a defect in reality itself. But what if uncertainty is not optional—what if it is imperative? In this radical and rigorously argued book, Boris Kriger proposes The Law of Imperative Uncertainty: Any system capable of sustained complexity must permit exceptions to its laws in the form of persistent uncertainty and probabilistic deviation. A perfectly deterministic universe—closed, exceptionless, rigid—cannot endure.