Product Description: "If you want a swashbuckling story of the spaceways, with romance and humour, this is it..  Jale is the charismatic captain of the space hearse Rigor Mortis, ably assisted by his first mate who is an android version of Sherlock Holmes...read more

Product Description: To the eyes of the average person and the trained scientist, the night sky is dark, even though the universe is populated by myriads of bright galaxies. Why this happens is a question commonly called Olbers' Paradox, and dates from at least 1823...read more

Product Description: Albert Einstein, together with Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein, realized that extra dimensions can be used to unify the different fields of physics, as well as unifying the fields with their material sources. In fact, it was Einstein's dream to transpose the "base wood" of the matter term in his field equations to the "marble" of the geometrical term...read more

Product Description: “One of the main strengths of this book is that it introduces the public domain R software and nicely explains how it can be used in computations of methods presented in the book . . . the monograph would be useful to some applied researchers in related fields...read more

Product Description: Olbers' paradox states that given the Universe is unbounded, governed by the standard laws of physics, and populated by light sources, the night sky should be ablaze with light. Obviously this is not so. However, the paradox does not lie in nature but in our understanding of physics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Einstein endorsed the view of Kaluza that gravity could be combined with electromagnetism if the dimensionality of the world is extended from 4 to 5. Klein applied this idea to quantum theory, laying a basis for the various modern versions of string theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)