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Mallove, Eugene Franklin was born on June 9, 1947 in Norwich, Connecticut, United States. Son of Mitchel Noah and Gladys (Alexander) Mallove.
(Mallove reflects on the awesome prospect that intelligent...)
Mallove reflects on the awesome prospect that intelligent life may play a significant role in the destiny of the universe. He speculates about well-founded cosmological theory that life may ultimately transform the universe for its own designs, just as it has already gained planet-wide control of the terrestrial biosphere. The Quickening Universe is a reflective scientific tour of the marvelously inventive cosmos that has come to life - quickened - and is now examining itself to discover meanings in its origins and destiny. This is an informed and poetic synthesis of scientific wonders that endlessly provoke our imagination: a probably infinite cosmos that emerged about 15 billion years ago from perhaps absolute nothingness; the unfathomable sense in which the laws of physics seem to "ordain" life - not a particular kind of life but organized complexity; eons of evolution that have led to beings here (and almost certainly in many other places) who can perceive beautiful laws of physics and mathematics and who have an equivalent thirst for artistic beauty; the staggering realization that the universe does not "know" its own state of being at the level of the quantum microcosm; and the supreme enigma, the grand illusion of time.
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(The Starflight Handbook A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar...)
The Starflight Handbook A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel "The Starflight Handbook is an indispensable compendium of the many and varied methods for traversing the vast interstellar gulf--don't leave the Solar System without it!" --Robert Forward "Very sensible, very complete and useful. Its good use of references and technical 'sidebars' adds to the book and allows the nontechnical text to be used by ordinary readers in an easy fashion. I certainly would recommend this book to anyone doing any thinking at all about interstellar flight or the notion of possibilities of contacts between hypothetical civilizations in different stat systems." --Louis Friedman Executive Director, The Planetary Society The Starflight Handbook is the first and only compendium on planet Earth of the radical new technologies now on the drawing boards of some of our smartest and most imaginative space scientists and engineers. Scientists and engineers as well as general readers will be captivated by its: * In-depth discussions of everything from nuclear pulse propulsion engines to in-flight navigation, in flowing, non-technical language * Sidebars and appendices cover technical and mathematical concepts in detail * Seventy-five elegant and enlightening illustrations depicting starships and their hardware
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Offering the prospect of clean, safe, and unlimited energy, nuclear fusion has long been the shining hope for a world disastrously dependent on dwindling supplies of fossil fuels. Two generations of the brightest scientific minds and billions of dollars have been devoted to designing and building experimental reactors that mimic the unimaginably extreme temperatures and pressures needed to produce nuclear reactions akin to those that power the Sun and the stars. Then, suddenly, in the spring of 1989, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, research chemists at the University of Utah, made an announcement that rocked the scientific world and made front-page news for months to follow. Their claim to have achieved nuclear fusion in a simple tabletop experiment and at room temperature defied sacrosanct conventional physical theories. And the scientific establishment would not take that challenge of cold fusion lying down. Within hours, even as the press was proclaiming a possible new era of unlimited clean energy, cries of disbelief and accusations of scientific misconduct and even fraud were heard from within professional circles. Researchers in laboratories around the world mobilized in an unprecedented effort to explain Pons and Fleischmanns experiments. A mountain of confusing, seemingly contradictory results began to pile up. Soon, leading scientific journals were regularly publishing cold fusion obituaries, and bitter editorials questioning the methods and motives of the cold fusion pioneers. Cold fusion was dead. . . or was it? Almost unnoticed, a steadfast group of hundreds of optimistic researchers around the world continues to search for a solution to the tantalizing cold fusion enigma. In Fire from Ice, astronautical engineer and well-known author, Eugene Mallove, sheds a new and very different light on the cold fusion confusion. Based on personal interviews with many of the people involved, as well as his firsthand experiences in laboratories and scientific conferences, he offers a unique insiders view of that divisive controversy, while at the same time clearly explaining the relevant science and technology. And Dr. Mallove convincingly argues that cold fusion may yet prove to be real. A story of scientific ambition and professional rivalry, political intrigue and hard science, Fire from Ice is the fascinating account of one of the most intense and momentous scientific controversies of all time.
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science writer Astronautical engineer
Mallove, Eugene Franklin was born on June 9, 1947 in Norwich, Connecticut, United States. Son of Mitchel Noah and Gladys (Alexander) Mallove.
Bachelor of Science in Aero./Astronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969; Master of Science in Aero./Astronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970; Doctor of Science in Environmental Health Sciences, Harvard University, 1975.
Construction engineering, Hughes Research laboratories, Malibu, California, 1970-1977; engineer, Harvard Air Cleaning Laboratory, Boston, 1975-1977; engineer, Analytic Sciences Corporation, Reading, Massachusetts, 1977-1979; president, founder, Astronomy New England Inc., Holliston, Massachusetts, 1979-1985; author, freelance science writer, Holliston, Mass and Bow, N.H., since 1982; engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, 1983-1985; science writer, broadcaster, Voice of America, Washington, 1985-1987; Adjunct Professor, Boston University School Communication, 1988-1990; chief science writer news office, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1987-1991; lecturer in science journalism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, since 1990.
(The Starflight Handbook A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar...)
(Offering the prospect of clean, safe, and unlimited energ...)
(In the spring of 1989, researchers at the University of U...)
(Mallove reflects on the awesome prospect that intelligent...)
(SPACE EXPLORATION, STAR SHIPS, HARDWARE, MATH CONCEPTS, N...)
Fellow British Interplanetary Society. Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Association Science Writers, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.
Married Joanne Karen Smith, September 6, 1970. Children: Kimberlyn Beth, Ethan Armstrong.