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The Mysterious Universe is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. In the United States, it was published by Macmillan. The book is an expanded version of the Rede Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1930. [1]
Mysterious universe may refer to: Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe, a television series by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke; The Mysterious Universe, a 1930 book about science by astrophysicist James Hopwood Jeans; Mysterious Universe: A Handbook of Astronomical Anomalies, a 1979 book about anomalous phenomena by William R. Corliss
It featured an introduction written by Clarke as well as his remarks at the end of each chapter or topic. In 1985, a paperback of this book was released by HarperCollins Publishers. The series was followed by Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe, broadcast in 1994.
The ‘Big Ring’ contradicts a fundamental assumption about the universe – and suggests it could be more structured than we realise Huge structure in space challenges our understanding of the ...
The book explores the perils related to the atomic age. In this novel, the Cold War is apparently still on, and at the end of the book one side has nuclear weapons above the earth on an orbital platform. To test its abilities, the Star Child detonates an orbiting warhead at the end of the novel, creating a false dawn below for the people on Earth.
The Unexpected Universe (1969) Harcourt, Brace and World; The Invisible Pyramid: A Naturalist Analyses the Rocket Century (1971) Devin-Adair Pub. The Night Country: Reflections of a Bone-Hunting Man (1971) Scribner; The Star Thrower (1978) Times Books, Random House; Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X: New Light on the Evolutionists (1979) E.P. Dutton
The name "Revelation Space universe" has been used by Alastair Reynolds in both the introductory text in the collections Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days and Galactic North, and also on several editions of the novels set in the universe. He considered calling it the "Exordium universe" after a key plot device, but found that the name was already in ...
It is the first book in the Expanse series, followed by Caliban's War (2012), Abaddon's Gate (2013) and six other novels. Leviathan Wakes was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel was adapted for television in 2015 as the first season-and-a-half of The Expanse by Syfy ...