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• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• The Thread of Thought
• Acknowledgments
• Exordium
• Chapter 0 Science and Society: An Overview
• Abstract
• Keywords:
• SS-0.0. Introduction
• SS-1.0. Earth Is a Paludarium
• SS-2.0. Science and Technology: A Change in Society
• SS-3.0. The United States: An Experiment in Government
• SS-4.0. Notable Presidents Whose Leadership Helped Make America Great
• SS-5.0. The Jefferson Nickel and the Kennedy Half Dollar
• SS-6.0. How Mammals Learn
• SS-7.0. Logical and Intuitive Responses
• SS-8.0. Logic and the Complexity of a System: The Metaphor of Checkers and Chess
• SS-9.0. Can Something “Hard” Capture the Attention of the General Public?
• SS-10.0. Body Parts and Decision Making: Head, Gut, Heart, and Sex Organs
• SS-11.0. Structure of Society
• SS-12.0. Metaphor of Science in Society: The Lone Ranger Episode 100 “The Devil’s Bog”
• SS-13.0. Intertwinement of Science and Society
• SS-14.0. Periods of Change in Society: The “Three Faces of Eve”
• SS-15.0. The Years 2016 and 2017: A Beginning of the New Era in American Society?
• SS-16.0. America as the Melting Pot
• SS-17.0. The Only Thing Constant About Change is Change
• Chapter 1. Philosophy of Science
• 1-0.0. Introduction
• 1-1.0. Eastern Philosophy and Western Philosophy
• 1-2.0. Overview of the Philosophy of Science and Eastern/Western Philosophy
• 1-3.0. The Greeks Did It All—They Just Did Not Fill in the Details
• 1-4.0. Philosophy, Politics, Religion, and Natural Philosophy
• 1-5.0. Confrontations of Natural Philosophy With Politics, Religion, and Superstition: The Early Years
• 1-6.0. Confrontations of Natural Philosophy With Politics, Religion, and Superstition: The Renaissance Period
• 1-7.0. Laying the Foundations of Classical Physics
• 1-8.0. Classical Physics: From the Renaissance Period to 1900
• 1-9.0. The Genesis of a New Era: Laying the Foundations for Spacetime Physics
• 1-10.0. The Struggle to Understand Quantum Mechanics
• 1-11.0. The Influence of Niels Bohr on the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
• 1-12.0. Entanglement: The Signature of Quantum Theory
• 1-13.0. Alternate Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
• 1-14.0. Two Beautiful Equations Derived From Two Incompatible Theories
• 1-15.0. The Particle Zoo: The Atom Smashers
• 1-16.0. Particles, Forces, and Fields
• 1-17.0. Experimental and Historical Sciences
• 1-18.0. The Philosophy of Emergence
• 1-19.0. Space—From the Greeks to Quantum-Spacetime Physics
• 1-20.0. Religion, Politics, and Science
• Chapter 2. Cosmology
• 2-0.0. Introduction
• 2-1.0. The Early Skywatchers
• 2-2.0. Time Is Movement: The Sun and the Moon
• 2-3.0. Time and Time Again
• 2-4.0. The Calendar Makers
• 2-5.0. The Ancient Greeks and Spherical Cosmology
• 2-6.0. Renaissance Period: Classical Cosmology
• 2-7.0. Newton’s Equation for Celestial Motion—The Derivation
• 2-8.0. Stability of the Solar System
• 2-9.0. Classical Cosmology and What the Ancient Skywatchers Saw
• 2-10.0. The Formation of the Solar System
• 2-11.0. Pluto: An Enigma
• 2-12.0. The Planets
• 2-13.0. The Sun
• 2-14.0. The Interior Structure of the Sun: The Road to Visible Light
• 2-15.0. The Solar Atmosphere
• 2-16.0. Solar Eclipse and the Corona
• 2-17.0. The Activity of the Sun
• 2-18.0. The Birth, Life, and Death of Stars
• 2-19.0. Synthesis of the Elements
• 2-20.0. Relative Motion of Trains—Galilean Style
• 2-21.0. Relative Motion of Trains—Einsteinian Style
• 2-22.0. The Geometry of Spacetime
• 2-23.0. Theory of General Relativity
• 2-24.0. The Theoretical Universe: 1917–27
• 2-25.0. The Year 1927
• 2-26.0. The Lemaître Universe
• 2-27.0. How to Touch What Cannot be Touched
• 2-28.0. Think Outside of the Milky Way Box
• 2-29.0. Expansion: There Goes the Neighborhood
• 2-30.0. The “Eye in the Sky”—The Hubble Telescope
• 2-31.0. Seeds Sown by Lemaître and Modern Cosmology
• 2-32.0. The Year 1932
• 2-33.0. A Tale of Two CDs
• 2-34.0. The Double E Question
• 2-35.0. “Who Put Eight Great Tomatoes in That Little Bitty Can?”
• 2-36.0. Cosmological Conundrums
• 2-37.0. The “False Vacuum” and the Cosmological Conundrums
• 2-38.0. Supermassive Black Holes
• 2-39.0. “Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark”
• 2-40.0. The Time Profile of the Universe From the Big Bang to Atoms: A Scenario
• Chapter 3. Geoscience
• 3-0.0. Introduction
• 3-1.0. The Periodic Table of Geosciences
• 3-2.0. The Early Solar System
• 3-3.0. The Origin of the Earth–Moon System
• 3-4.0. A Peek Inside the Earth
• 3-5.0. The Atmosphere in Three Acts
• 3-6.0. The Chemical Composition of the Earth’s Atmosphere Today
• 3-7.0. The Earth’s Atmosphere as an Onion
• 3-8.0. Reactions and the Temperature Profile of the Earth’s Atmosphere
• 3-9.0. The Structure of the Earth’s Atmosphere
• 3-10.0. The Age of the Earth: From Charles Darwin to Arthur Holmes
• 3-11.0. “And Yet It Moves”
• 3-12.0. Temperature Gradients and Flow of Heat and Matter
• 3-13.0. Plate Tectonics
• 3-14.0. Theory of Continental Drift
• 3-15.0. From the Instant to Geological Time
• 3-16.0. Earth Dynamics: The Moon, the Sun, and the Planets
• 3-17.0. The Earth’s Magnetic Field
• 3-18.0. Upon Reflection: The Albedo
• 3-19.0. The Albedo and Temperature of the Earth
• 3-20.0. Solar Energy Distribution Based on the Geometry of the Earth
• 3-21.0. The Earth’s Geometry, the Atmosphere, and Transport of Energy
• 3-22.0. A Gathering Storm
• 3-23.0. Water—The Liquid
• 3-24.0. The Structure of the Oceans
• 3-25.0. Ocean Currents
• 3-26.0. Lakes and Ponds
• 3-27.0. Rivers
• 3-28.0. Acidity of Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
• 3-29.0. Weathering
• 3-30.0. Weather and Climate
• 3-31.0. Water as a Carrier: Waste Not, Want Not
• Chapter 4. Life Science
• 4-0.0. Introduction
• 4-1.0. Origin of Life
• 4-2.0. Natural Selection
• 4-3.0. Genetics
• 4-4.0. Diversity of Life and Environmental Pressure: Natural Selection at Work
• 4-5.0. Life Is One Big Smorgasbord
• 4-6.0. Life is Like a Box of Chocolates
• 4-7.0. The Packaging of the Genetic Information
• 4-8.0. The Amphiphiles
• 4-9.0. The Worker Molecules
• 4-10.0. Ions and Polyions
• 4-11.0. The Central Nervous System
• 4-12.0. Heavy Metal Ions: Required
• 4-13.0. You Are What You Eat
• 4-14.0. The Biological Response to Toxic Chemicals
• 4-15.0. “We Have Met The Enemy, And They Are Us”
• 4-16.0. Toxic Heavy Metals
• 4-17.0. The Mercury Scare
• 4-18.0. Get the Lead Out: Don’t Be Flint-Stoned
• 4-19.0. Pesticides
• 4-20.0. The Anthropocene Period
• 4-21.0. Environmental Protection Agency—Looking After the Health of the People and the Environment
• 4-22.0. “Make America Toxic Again”
• Chapter 5. Ecology
• 5-0.0. Introduction
• 5-1.0. Our Ecological Heritage: America the Beautiful
• 5-2.0. Dictionary Definitions: Habitats, Environment, Ecosystems, and Ecology
• 5-3.0. Ecosphere, Hyper-Ecosphere, and EcoSystem
• 5-4.0. Some Population Problems
• 5-5.0. Agriculture
• 5-6.0. Fossil Fuels
• 5-7.0. The Anthropocene Era
• 5-8.0. Nuclear Energy
• 5-9.0. 1984—Bhopal Explosion
• 5-10.0. The BP Celebration Event
• 5-11.0. Fukushima
• 5-12.0. Don’t Worry, Be Happy: The Religion of Technology
• 5-13.0. Toward a Self-Sustainable Ecosphere
• 5-14.0. A Religious Denomination Divided: Evangelicalism and Separation of Church and State
• Chapter 6. Information Content
• 6-0.0. Introduction
• 6-1.0. Acquisition of Information: The Senses
• 6-2.0. The Representation of Information: Simple Examples of States of a System
• 6-3.0. Language as Communication: Letters, Words, and Sentences
• 6-4.0. We’ve Been Framed!
• 6-5.0. Science Communication With the General Public
• 6-6.0. Myths, Mistakes, and Outright Wrong
• 6-7.0. What Do Multiple Choice Quizzes Measure?
• 6-8.0. Framing and Wording of Multiple Question Quizzes and Surveys
• 6-9.0. Pew Research Center Tests on Public’s Knowledge of Science and Technology
• 6-10.0. Conveyance of Information
• 6-11.0. Information Transfer Through Educational Systems
• 6-12.0. The Internet: The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Information
• Constants of Nature
• Appendix A: Basic Thermodynamics
• Appendix B: Forces and Flows
• Appendix C: Quantum Theory of Atoms and Molecules
• Author Index
• Subject Index