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Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond....
Rocket Dreams: How The Space
Age Shaped Our Vision Of A
World Beyond....
    From the first landings
    on the moon to the
    implications of our cyber
    worlds, this unusual and
    intriguing book takes a
    provocative look at our
    fascination with space.
    Rocket Dreams is a
    fast-moving, fact-filled
    study of how all the
    dreams that went in to
    moonflight in the '60s
    have found new homes and
    mutated into new
    fascination with space.
    It is about our
    unquenchable desire to
    reach out to other
    worlds, physical and
    imaginative. From the
    Apollo astronauts to the
    military origins of the
    internet, and the whole
    phenomenon of 'virtual
    communities', it reveals
    how the ideals and
    longings pinned on
    cyberspace have evolved
    directly from those of
    the space age. Space
    dreams have been
    transformed into screen
    dreams, but the longing
    for communication with
    'the other' lies at the
    heart of both.
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Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation
Faster Than The Speed Of
Light: The Story Of A
Scientific Speculation
    The idea that the speed
    of light is a constant -
    at 186, 000 miles per
    second - is one of the
    few scientific facts that
    almost everyone knows.
    That constant - c- also
    appears in the most
    famous of all scientific
    equations: e=mc2- Yet
    over the last few years,
    a small group of highly
    reputable young
    physicists have suggested
    that the central dogma of
    modern physics may not be
    an absolute truth - light
    may have moved faster in
    the earlier life of the
    universe, it may still
    be moving at different
    speeds elsewhere today.


    In telling the
    story of this heresy,
    and its gradual journey
    towards acceptance, Joao
    Magueijo writes as one of
    the three central figures
    in the story,
    introducing the reader to
    modern cosmology, to the
    implications of VSL
    (variable speed of light)
    and to the world of
    physicists. The initial
    rejection of Magueijo's
    ideas is beginning to
    give way to a reluctant
    acceptance that the young
    men may have a point -
    only the next few years
    will tell the final fate
    of this 'dangerous'
    idea.
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£9.89
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