Cosmic Origins
Science’s Long Quest to Understand How Our Universe Began
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Beschreibung
Cosmic Origins tells the story of how physicists and astronomers have struggled for more than a century to understand the beginnings of our universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the modern day. The book will introduce the science as a narrative, by telling the story of the scientists who made each major discovery. It will also address and explain aspects of our theories that some cosmologists are still hesitant to accept, as well as gaps in our knowledge and even apparent inconsistencies in our measurements. Clearly written by a master of scientific exposition, this book will fascinate the curious general reader as well as providing essential background reading for college-level courses on physics and astronomy.
Cosmic Origins tells the story of how physicists and astronomers have struggled for more than a century to understand the beginnings of our universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the modern day. The book will introduce the science as a narrative, by telling the story of the scientists who made each major discovery. It will also address and explain aspects of our theories that some cosmologists are still hesitant to accept, as well as gaps in our knowledge and even apparent inconsistencies in our measurements. Clearly written by a master of scientific exposition, this book will fascinate the curious general reader as well as providing essential background reading for college-level courses on physics and astronomy.
Comprehensive overview of what scientists know about the origins of the universe Introduces the science through engaging stories of how things were discovered Tells the story of how cosmologists struggled to accept (or even believe) their own discoveries
Autor*in
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Themen in »Cosmic Origins«
Big Bang Cosmic Inflation Cosmic Microwave Background Albert Einstein Edwin Hubble Expansion of the Universe Einstein's General Relativity Multiverse Theories Dark Matter Dark Energy The Hubble Crisis WIMPS Anthropic Principle Alan Guth