User:DCCougar

DCCougar is a solo, multi-genre, multi-track recording artist ready to burst onto the world music scene any day now. ;^)

Cougar also has a degree in mathematics and is interested in cosmology, astrophysics, and science in general. Besides perusing a fair sample of the innumerable journal articles in these subjects, Cougar has tried to keep up with the popular literature as follows:

Chaos, Making a New Science [1987] -- James Gleick

Complexity, Life at the Edge of Chaos [1992] -- Roger Lewin

Complexification -- John Casti

Journey to the Great Attractor [1994]-- Alan Dressler

The Science of Fractal Images -- Peitgen, Saupe, eds.

Hyperspace, A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension [1994] -- Michio Kaku

The Matter Myth -- Paul Davies

The Cosmic Blueprint, New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe [1988] -- Paul Davies

God and the New Physics -- Paul Davies

The Red Limit [1977]-- Timothy Ferris

Coming of Age in the Milky Way -- Timothy Ferris

The Mind's Sky, Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context -- Timothy Ferris

The Key to the Universe [1977] -- Nigel Calder

QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter -- Richard Feynman

Surely Your Joking, Mr. Feynman! -- Richard Feynman

What Do You Care What Other People Think? -- Richard Feynman

Cosmic Catastrophes [1989] -- Clark Chapman, David Morrison

Searching For Certainty, What Scientists Can Know About the Future [1990] -- John L. Casti

Dreams of a Final Theory [1992] -- Steven Weinberg

The Cosmic Code [1982] -- Heinz Pagels

Sympathetic Vibrations, Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life [1985] -- K.C. Cole

The God Particle, If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question? [1993] -- Leon Lederman with Dick Teresi

Genius, The Life and Science of Richard Feynman [1995] -- James Gleick

At Home in the Universe, The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity [1995] -- Stuart Kauffman

The Origin of The Universe [1994] -- John D. Barrow

The Quark and the Jaguar, Adventures in the Simple and the Complex [1995] -- Murray Gell-Mann

The Last Three Minutes, Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe [1994] -- Paul Davies

Flyby, The Interplanetary Odyssey of Voyager 2 [1987] -- Joel Davis

The Nemesis Affair, A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science [1986] -- David M. Raup

Bully for Brontosaurus -- Stephen Jay Gould

Eight Little Piggies, Reflections in Natural History [1993] -- Stephen Jay Gould

On a Piece of Chalk [1868, republished 1967] -- Thomas Henry Huxley

Cosmic Coincidences, Dark Matter, Mankind, and Anthropic Cosmology [1989] -- John Gribbin and Martin Rees

The Collapse of Chaos, Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World [1994] -- Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart

The Milky Way, Fifth Edition [1941-1981] -- Bart Bok, Priscilla Bok

A Hundred Billion Stars [1984] -- Mario Rigutti

The Lighter Side of Gravity [1982] -- Jayant V. Narlikar

Chaos in the Cosmos [1996] -- Barry Parker

A Brief History of Time -- Stephen Hawking

Black Holes and Baby Universes [1993] -- Stephen Hawking

Exploring the Galaxies [1976] -- Simon Mitton

The Three Big Bangs, Comet Crashes, Exploding Stars, and the Creation of the Universe [1996] -- Dauber and Muller

Mysteries of the Milky Way [1991] -- Goldsmith and Cohen

The Edges of Science [1990] -- Richard Morris

The Privilege of Being a Physicist [1989] -- Victor Weisskopf

Feynman's Lost Lecture [1996]

Cosmic Rays, Tracking Particles From Outer Space [1989] -- Michael Friedlander

Quarks, The Stuff of Matter [1983] -- Harald Fritzsch

How Nature Works, The Science of Self-Organized Criticality [1996] -- Per Bak

In The Beginning, After COBE and Before The Big Bang [1993] -- John Gribbin

The Secret Melody [1995] -- Trinh Xuan Thuan

Neils Bohr, A Centenary Volume [1985] -- French and Kennedy, eds.

The Particle Garden, Our Universe as Understood by Particle Physicists [1995] -- Gordon Kane

The Edge of the Unknown, 101 Things You Don't Know About Science And No One Else Does Either [1996] -- James Trefil

Einstein's Legacy -- Julian Schwinger

The Whole Shebang, A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report [1997] -- Timothy Ferris

Creation, The Story of the Origin and Evolution of the Universe [1988] -- Barry Parker

In Quest of Quasars, An Introduction to Stars and Starlike Objects [1969] -- Ben Bova

The Twin Dimensions, Inventing Time & Space [1986] -- Geza Szamosi

Blind Watchers of the Sky, The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe [1996] -- Rocky Kolb

Heisenberg Probably Slept Here, The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Greatest Physicists of the 20th Century [1997] -- Richard P. Brennan

Beyond the Known Universe, From Dwarf Stars to Quasars [1974] -- I.M. Levitt

The Dark Side of the Universe [1988] -- James Trefil

Perfect Symmetry [1985] -- Heinz Pagels

The Very First Light, The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe [1996] -- John C. Mather and John Boslough

The First Three Minutes, A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe [1977] -- Steven Weinberg

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers [1949] -- Max Planck

The Cosmos from Space [1987] -- David H. Clark

Rain of Iron and Ice, the very real threat of comet and asteroid bombardment [1996] -- John S. Lewis

Worlds Unnumbered, the Search for Extrasolar Planets [1997] -- Donald Goldsmith

Why People Believe Weird Things, pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time [1997] -- Michael Shermer

The Threat and the Glory [1959-90] -- Peter B. Medawar

Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid [1979] -- Douglas Hofstadter

The Inflationary Universe, the quest for a new theory of cosmic origins [1997] -- Alan H. Guth

Wrinkles in Time [1993] -- George Smoot, Keay Davidson

The Meaning of It All, Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist [1998] -- Richard P. Feynman

The Light at the Edge of the Universe [1993] -- Michael D. Lemonick

Chaos and Harmony [2001] -- Trinh Xuan Thuan

The Fifth Miracle, The Search for the Origin of Life [1998] -- Paul Davies

Paradigms Regained, A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science [2000] -- John Casti

The Essence of Chaos [1993] -- Edward N. Lorenz

Thinking in Complexity, The Complex Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind - 3rd Ed. [1997] -- Klaus Mainzer

Gravitation and Cosmology, Proceedings of the ICGC Conference Held at IUCAA, Pune, India, in December 1995 [1995] -- Dhurandhar and Padmanabhan (eds.)

The Social Meaning of Modern Biology, From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology [1986] -- Howard L. Kaye

Origins of Life [1985] -- Freeman Dyson

In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks [1997] -- Gerard 't Hooft

The Large, the Small and the Human Mind [1997] -- Roger Penrose

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [1962, 1970] -- Thomas S. Kuhn

Beyond the Black Hole, Stephen Hawking's Universe [1985] -- John Boslough

The Thermodynamics of Pizza, Essays on Science and Everyday Life [1991] -- Harold J. Morowitz

Billions and Billions, Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium [1997] -- Carl Sagan

Beyond the Quantum Paradox [1994] -- Lazar Mayants

Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates of Human Societies [1997] -- Jared Diamond

Einstein, A Centenary Volume, [1979] -- A.P. French, ed.

Science and Beyond [1986] -- Steven Rose and Lisa Appignanesi, eds.

Science a la Mode, Physical Fashions and Fictions [1989] -- Tony Rothman

Goodbye, Descartes, The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind [1997] --Keith Devlin

The Runaway Universe, the Race to Find the Future of the Cosmos [2000] -- Donald Goldsmith

General Relativity From A to B [1978] -- Robert Geroch

Quantum Reality, Beyond the New Physics [1985] -- Nick Herbert

The Flamingo's Smile, Reflections in Natural History [1985] -- Stephen Jay Gould

Science, Computers, and People, From the Tree of Mathematics [1986] -- Stanislaw Ulam; Marc C. Reynolds, Gian-Carlo Rota, Eds.

The Flight From Science and Reason, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 775 [1996] -- edited by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis

Doing Science, The Reality Club [1991] -- edited by John Brockman [not recommended]

A Tour of the Calculus [1995] -- David Berlinski

A Beautiful Mind, The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash [1998] -- Sylvia Nasar

Euler, The Master of Us All [1999] -- William Dunham

Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times [2000] -- Steve Fuller

The Fabric of the Cosmos; Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality [2004] -- Brian Greene

The Life of the Cosmos [1997] -- Lee Smolin

The Universe at Midnight, Observations Illuminating the Cosmos [2001] -- Ken Croswell

Galaxies and Quasars [1979] -- William J. Kaufman

Conflict in the Cosmos, Fred Hoyle's Life in Science [2005] -- Simon Mitton

Big Bang, the origin of the universe [2004] -- by Simon Singh

How The Universe Got Its Spots, Diary of a finite time in a finite space [2002] -- Janna Levin

From Quarks to the Cosmos, Tools of Discovery [1995] -- Leon Lederman, David Schramm

The Big Questions, Probing the promise and limits of science [2002] -- Richard Morris

Alpha and Omega, The search for the beginning and end of the universe [2004] -- Charles Seife

Supersymmetry, Unveiling the ultimate laws of nature [2000] -- Gordon Kane

Black Holes and Time Warps, Einstein's Outrageous Legacy [1994] -- Kip Thorne

The Universe, the 11th Dimension, and Everything, What we know and how we know it [1999] -- Richard Morris

Faster, The Acceleration of Just about Everything [2000] -- James Gleick

Before the Beginning, Our Universe and Others [1997] -- Martin Rees

The Life of the Cosmos [1999] -- Lee Smolin

The Cosmic Landscape String theory and the illusion of intelligent design [2006] -- Leonard Susskind

Chasing Hubble's Shadows, The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time [2006] -- Jeff Kanipe

Cosmic Clouds: Birth, death, and recycling in the galaxy [1997] -- James Kaler

Many Worlds in One [2006] -- Alex Vilenkin

Endless Universe, Beyond the Big Bang [2007] -- Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok

Origins: How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began [2006] -- by Stephen Eales

Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos [1995] -- by Robert Osserman

Extreme Stars, At the Edge of Creation [2001] -- by James Kaler