The Privileged Planet
The Privileged Planet

Author: Guillermo Gonzalez

Publisher: Regnery Gateway

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1684510775

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Earth. The Final Frontier Contrary to popular belief, Earth is not an insignificant blip on the universe’s radar. Our world proves anything but average in Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards’ The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery. But what exactly does Earth bring to the table? How does it prove its worth among numerous planets and constellations in the vastness of the Milky Way? In The Privileged Planet, you’ll learn about the world’s life-sustaining capabilities, water and its miraculous makeup, protection by the planetary giants, and how our planet came into existence in the first place.

The Fated Sky
The Fated Sky

Author: Benson Bobrick

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006-11-14

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0743268954

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'The Fated Sky' looks at famous figures and important historical events that were influenced by astrology.

Understanding Gravitational Waves
Understanding Gravitational Waves

Author: C. R. Kitchin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-23

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 3030742075

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The birth of a completely new branch of observational astronomy is a rare and exciting occurrence. For a long time, our theories about gravitational waves—proposed by Albert Einstein and others more than a hundred years ago—could never be fully proven, since we lacked the proper technology to do it. That all changed when, on September 14, 2015, instruments at the LIGO Observatory detected gravitational waves for the first time. This book explores the nature of gravitational waves—what they are, where they come from, why they are so significant and why nobody could prove they existed before now. Written in plain language and interspersed with additional explanatory tutorials, it will appeal to lay readers, science enthusiasts, physical science students, amateur astronomers and to professional scientists and astronomers.

Challenges of Astronomy
Challenges of Astronomy

Author: Wolfhard Schlosser

Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Springer-Verlag

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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A unique collection of thirty experiments ranging from ancient astronomy to cosmology, each containing one or more challenges for the reader. The progression here is from the Earth outward through the solar system to the stellar and galactic realm. Topics include the shape of the sky; Stonehenge as a stone-age abacus; determining the size of the Earth; the distance of the moon, stars and planets; planetary mass, density, temperature and atmosphere; the speed of light; the nature of the quiet and active sun; photometry and spectroscopy; star clusters and variable stars; and fundamental properties of stars.

Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition
Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition

Author: Asit Kumar Das

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-04

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 9811625433

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This book features high-quality research papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition (CIPR 2021), held at the Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on 24 – 25 April 2021. It includes practical development experiences in various areas of data analysis and pattern recognition, focusing on soft computing technologies, clustering and classification algorithms, rough set and fuzzy set theory, evolutionary computations, neural science and neural network systems, image processing, combinatorial pattern matching, social network analysis, audio and video data analysis, data mining in dynamic environments, bioinformatics, hybrid computing, big data analytics and deep learning. It also provides innovative solutions to the challenges in these areas and discusses recent developments.