Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

YinYang Bipolar Relativity: A Unifying Theory of Nature, Agents and Causality with Applications in Quantum Computing...




YinYang Bipolar Relativity: A Unifying Theory of Nature, Agents and Causality with Applications in Quantum Computing, Cognitive Informatics and Life Sciences by Wen-Ran Zhang
English | 2011 | ISBN: 160960525X | 436 pages | PDF | 5,2 MB


YinYang bipolar relativity can trace its philosophical origins to ancient Chinese YinYang cosmology, which claims that everything has two sides or two opposite, but reciprocal, poles or energies. More specifically, this discipline is intended to be a logical unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics.


YinYang Bipolar Relativity: A Unifying Theory of Nature, Agents and Causality with Applications in Quantum Computing, Cognitive Informatics and Life Sciences presents real-world applications of YinYang bipolar relativity that focus on quantum computing and agent interaction. This unique work makes complex theoretical topics, such as the ubiquitous effects of quantum entanglement, logically comprehendible to a vast audience.




Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Einstein"s Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions [Audiobook]




Einstein’s Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions By Thad Roberts, read by Jonathan Farkasofsky
2015 | 20 hours and 31 minutes Pages | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: B016AU6OT4 | MP3 32 kbps | 289 MB



Presented in clear and accessible language, Roberts offers the listener a voyage through the stages of human knowledge. He then examines the outstanding mysteries of modern physics, the phenomena that lie outside the borders of our current understanding (dark energy, dark matter, the Big Bang, wave-particle duality, quantum tunneling, state vector reduction, etc.) and suggests that the next step in our intellectual journey is to treat the vacuum of space as a superfluid – modeling it as being composed of interactive quanta, which, in a self-similar way, are composed of subquanta, and so on.
With this proposition, Roberts imbues the vacuum with fractal geometry and opens the door to explaining the outstanding mysteries of physics geometrically. Roberts’ model, called quantum space theory, has been praised for how it offers an intuitively accessible picture of 11 dimensions and for powerfully extending the insight of general relativity, eloquently translating the four forces into unique kinds of geometric distortions while offering us access to the underlying deterministic dynamics that give rise to quantum mechanics. That remarkably simple picture explains the mysteries of modern physics in a way that’s fully commensurate with Einstein’s Intuition. It’s a refreshingly unique perspective that generates several testable predictions.



Monday, May 16, 2016

Cooking Wild: More than 150 Recipes for Eating Close to Nature




John Ash, James O. Fraioli, “Cooking Wild: More than 150 Recipes for Eating Close to Nature”
English | ISBN: 0762457945 | 2016 | EPUB | 328 pages | 16 MB


To eat wild foods, you needn’t crawl through the forest or hunt your own game. Many wild foods are as close by as your local supermarket. But this doesn’t mean that wild foods aren’t worth the hunt. This book takes a big view of “wild,” including recipes and information on both foraged, uncultivated foods as well as looking at the progeny of wild foods more conveniently found for sale alongside their conventional cousins.


Americans are increasingly concerned about where their food comes from and how it’s produced, packaged, and marketed. Heritage breeds, Paleo diets, farmers’ markets, and environmental and climate concerns all point to increased interest in foods that are as natural, untreated, and healthy as they can be. Plants, seafood, meat, and poultry are all covered in more than 150 recipes, and will serve as a historical, agricultural education for your kitchen.




Thursday, May 12, 2016

Kevin Moss - Digital Nature Photography and Adobe Photoshop [Repost]




Kevin Moss – Digital Nature Photography and Adobe Photoshop
2006 | ISBN: 1598631357 | English | 353 pages | PDF | 20.5 MB


The digital nature photographer does more than just take pictures. He is part adventurer, part traveler, and part nature and wildlife observer – on top of being a skilled photographer. “Digital Nature Photography and Adobe Photoshop” addresses the unique challenges and needs of the digital nature photographer, combining an advanced guide to shooting and composition with information on editing and processing nature and landscape photos using Adobe Photoshop. Divided into two parts, the first half of the book provides in-depth information on the essential computer equipment, field gear, and techniques needed to shoot digital nature photography, whereas the second half details workflow and advanced editing techniques. Discover the advantages of digital over film for nature photography and how to choose the right camera and accessories. Learn what hardware, software, special tools, and storage devices work best. And outfit yourself and your equipment for the wilderness with the proper tripods, camera bags, clothing, and more. Then get ready to master the essential skills for shooting landscapes, photographing wildlife, creating abstract and macro shots, and even using Camera Raw for nature photography. All skills are taught using step-by-step tutorials enhanced by stunning, full-color examples of digital nature photography. Once you’ve captured your incredible nature photographs, get acquainted with Adobe Photoshop as you learn how to use the software to edit and finish your photos. Color management, layers, tonal and color corrections, and simple editing tasks are all covered. This comprehensive guide even shows you how to create special effects using Photoshop filters and how to convert color images into spectacular black-and-white photographs.




Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change




The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change by E. Kirsten Peters
English | 2012 | ISBN: 185383582X, 1616146729 | 290 pages | EPUB | 1,3 MB


In the publicity surrounding global warming, climate scientists are usually the experts consulted by the media. We rarely hear from geologists, who for almost two hundred years have been studying the history of Earth’s dramatic and repeated climate revolutions, as revealed in the evidence of rocks and landscapes. This book, written by a geologist, describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced picture than is usually presented.


While the average person often gets the impression that the Earth’s climate would be essentially stable if it weren’t for the deleterious effects of greenhouse gases, in fact the history of the earth over many millennia reveals a constantly changing climate. As the author explains, several long cold eras have been punctuated by shorter warm periods. The most recent of these warm spells, the one in which we are now living, started ten thousand years ago; based on previous patterns, we should be about due for the return of another frigid epoch. Some scientists even think that the warming of the planet caused by man-made greenhouse gasses tied to agriculture in the past few thousand years may have held off the next ice age. Though this may be possible, much remains uncertain.


But what is clearly known is that major climate shifts can be appallingly rapid–occurring over as little as twenty or thirty years. One danger of dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is that they may increase the chance that this “climate switch” will be thrown, with catastrophic effects on worldwide agriculture.


Besides her discussion of climate, the author includes chapters on how early naturalists pieced together the complicated geological history of Earth, and she teaches the reader how to interpret the evidence of rock formations and landscape patterns all around us.


Accessible and engagingly written, this book is essential reading for anyone looking to understand one of our most important contemporary debates.