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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (61 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics, the story of our values, our institutions, our interactions. Using her own experience and a custom blend of insight and humor, provocation and inspiration, personal story and social commentary, Emily takes her audience through its paradigm shift: from the Fear of Change to the Edge of Chaos. Emily Levine, like her film, was one-of-a-kind. She was a television...
Author
Language
English
Description
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college...
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (198 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Who or what created the universe in which we live? The groundbreaking series into the Universe with Stephen Hawking combined cutting-edge computer graphics with Hawking's witty, distinctive and incisive world view. Now, the journey is taken a step further, as physics and cosmology become tools to answer questions that philosophers have struggled with for thousands...
Author
Language
English
Description
"[Levesque] dissects both the romance and the real human curiosity that is so important to our exploration of space. Amidst the lonely quiet of stargazing to wild bears loose in the observatory, these love stories of astronomy show how scientists are going beyond the machines to infuse important creativity and intimate passion into the stars, inspiring future generations to peer skyward in pursuit of the universe's secrets"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Though his byline as a senior writer for Space.com includes his doctorate in biology, the speculation throughout Wall's first book is more playful than scientifically rigorous -- as befits a book with a bibliography that includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Each chapter title poses a question: "Are We All Martians?"; "Do Aliens Have Sex?"; "Will Aliens Kill Us All?"; "Is Time Travel Possible?" In nearly every case, the answer is a qualified...
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