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Time One tackles mankind's most baffling question: How did the world begin? After challenging old thinking about forty-seven crucial scientific problems, Time One author Colin Gillespie solves forty-five of them and comes up with a strikingly simple answer to the most perplexing question of them all: How did the world begin?

Time One takes an iconoclastic look at contemporary physics, notably relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory.

Want to know how AT&T's Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology - and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work - and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.

Join host Derek Condit, a certified hypnotherapist, psychic, and medium whose life shifted dramatically in his mid-40s when his psychic abilities unexpectedly came online. After a diverse career, including time spent as a correctional officer in a maximum-security prison, he suddenly found himself visually perceiving the metaphysical—spirits, energies, and the subtle realms beyond ordinary sight. Alongside this newfound vision came heightened psychic intuition and vivid clairvoyant abilities. In Psychic Without Warning, you'll hear candid discussions, practical insights, and relatable ...

Physics puzzles and deep dives into physics topics.

Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections.