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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]
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.
Wrote Introduction and one story, collected the other ten stories. The Coming of the Space Age; Famous Accounts of Man's Probing of the Universe; 1967. Selected and edited by Arthur C. Clarke. The Beginnings of Satellite Communication; J.R. Pierce, 1968. Wrote Preface. Three for Tomorrow; Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny and James Blish, 1969 ...
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 ...
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
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was released on DVD on 11 March 2003. [4]A collection DVD Box Set of all three Arthur C. Clarke documentary series, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers and Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was released in July 2013 by Visual Entertainment, which also re-released them separately in September 2013.
Floyd C. Gale wrote that "too many [trick endings] are more than enough", but that there were "several superlative items", citing the "Venture to the Moon" and "The Other Side of the Sky" story headings. [2]
The first chapter describes several ways in which the universe appears beautiful and poetic when viewed scientifically. However, it first introduces an additional reason to embrace science. Time and space are vast, so the probability that the reader came to be alive here and now, as opposed to another time or place, was slim.