The Mystery Sphere of Athens
The Mystery Sphere of Athens

Author: Alan V. Gordon

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1514497352

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When is a mystery truly mysterious? This was the thought that ran through my puzzled mind, when I first saw the magic sphere of Helios, exhibited at the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. Why is this antiquity so terribly understated? Were the museum authorities trying to tell the visitor to move on and not to waste their valuable time looking at this particular exhibit? I was completely fascinated by the strange symbols and inscriptions, together with the statue of liberty lookalike, all covering the entire surface of the marble sphere. My fingers had automatically reached into my camera bag, pulling out my trusty old camera. Within less than a minute I had taken more than a dozen shots of this truly magical globe, covered with what I perceived to be sacred geometric symbolism.

Sphere
Sphere

Author: Michael Crichton

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-05-14

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0307816486

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From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Congo comes a psychological thriller about a group of scientists who investigate a spaceship discovered on the ocean floor. In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface, a huge vessel is unearthed. Rushed to the scene is a team of American scientists who descend together into the depths to investigate the astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship, but apparently it is undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old, containing a terrifying and destructive force that must be controlled at all costs.

The dark sphere mystery and the quantic box
The dark sphere mystery and the quantic box

Author: Carlos Augusto Nicolai

Publisher: Editora Buqui

Published: 2021-02-10

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 6586118867

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This book tells the story of Andre's life – one of the protagonists – and talks about a mysterious sphere-shaped meteorite that fell on his farm, in the 1960s. Some days after the meteorite falls, Andre meets a beautiful girl, Julia, who soon becomes to be his girlfriend and to be aware of the big mystery surrounding the meteorite. In secret, they live the most fantastic and unimaginable adventures. Andre and Julia also witness the rise and the truculence of the Brazilian military regime, installed in 1964. Because of that, and attending a request made by their parents, they both decide to live together in the United States of America. Once in America, this wonderful couple starts studying in the Houston University. Andre follow studies Astrophysics and Julia dedicate herself to Geology. This way, with their knowledge combined, they will try solving the mystery of the strange sphere that fell from the sky. During the University study period, they face extremely difficult experiences. But, little by little, as they get to know the sphere special characteristics, they acquire great powers that no human being has ever experienced. However, Andre and Julia always make use of it in the most ethical way possible. Their biggest fear is that such secret becomes public and human greed puts everything to lose. So, if such power to pass by wrong hands, it would certainly be used as a way of domination.

Dyson Sphere
Dyson Sphere

Author: Charles Pellegrino

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1999-04-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0743421299

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Two hundred million kilometers across, with a surface area that exceeds that of a quarter-billion worlds, the Dyson sphere is one of the most astounding discoveries the Federation has ever made. Now the U.S.S. Enterprise™ has returned to explore the awesome mysteries of the sphere. Intrigued by what is possibly the greatest archaeological treasure of all time, Captain Jean-Luc Picard hopes to discover the origin of humanoid life throughout the galaxy -- or perhaps the ultimate secret of the Borg. But when a neutron star approaches on a collision course with the sphere, a mission of discovery becomes a desperate race against time. The many sentient species inhabiting the sphere face extinction -- can even the Starship Enterprise save them all?

The Sphere of Infinity
The Sphere of Infinity

Author: Day Leitao

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781999242701

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An Aladdin retelling in space. Alana finds the opportunity to find freedom and escape poverty in a mission to collect a precious object in an abandoned alien vessel from where nobody has come out alive.

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups
Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

Author: John H. Conway

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 1475720165

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The main themes. This book is mainly concerned with the problem of packing spheres in Euclidean space of dimensions 1,2,3,4,5, . . . . Given a large number of equal spheres, what is the most efficient (or densest) way to pack them together? We also study several closely related problems: the kissing number problem, which asks how many spheres can be arranged so that they all touch one central sphere of the same size; the covering problem, which asks for the least dense way to cover n-dimensional space with equal overlapping spheres; and the quantizing problem, important for applications to analog-to-digital conversion (or data compression), which asks how to place points in space so that the average second moment of their Voronoi cells is as small as possible. Attacks on these problems usually arrange the spheres so their centers form a lattice. Lattices are described by quadratic forms, and we study the classification of quadratic forms. Most of the book is devoted to these five problems. The miraculous enters: the E 8 and Leech lattices. When we investigate those problems, some fantastic things happen! There are two sphere packings, one in eight dimensions, the E 8 lattice, and one in twenty-four dimensions, the Leech lattice A , which are unexpectedly good and very 24 symmetrical packings, and have a number of remarkable and mysterious properties, not all of which are completely understood even today.

The Technique of the Mystery Story
The Technique of the Mystery Story

Author: Carolyn Wells

Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing

Published: 2017-05-19

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 396189891X

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For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwearied through miles of printed pages, and if only the problem has been worth while, and its pursuit has led along surprising ways, past shuddery thickets and over fearsome bridges, my soul has returned to sober affairs refreshed and content. In a word, here is a remarkable volume which shows us how the wheels go round, not by dogmatic statement, but by an amazing breadth and variety of citation and quotation, showing not only what great mystery writers have thought of their art, but illustrating by apposite examples how they secured their effects.

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups
Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

Author: John Conway

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13: 1475765681

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The third edition of this definitive and popular book continues to pursue the question: what is the most efficient way to pack a large number of equal spheres in n-dimensional Euclidean space? The authors also examine such related issues as the kissing number problem, the covering problem, the quantizing problem, and the classification of lattices and quadratic forms. There is also a description of the applications of these questions to other areas of mathematics and science such as number theory, coding theory, group theory, analogue-to-digital conversion and data compression, n-dimensional crystallography, dual theory and superstring theory in physics. New and of special interest is a report on some recent developments in the field, and an updated and enlarged supplementary bibliography with over 800 items.