Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (370 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691001588
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1400864054
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9780691607320
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9781400864058
Serie:
Princeton Legacy Library
Inhalt:
Will the universe expand forever? Or will it collapse in a Big Crunch within the next few billion years? If the Big Bang theory is correct in presenting the origins of the universe as a smooth fireball, how did the universe come to contain structures as large as the recently discovered ""Great Wall"" of galaxies, which stretches hundreds of millions of light years? Such are the compelling questions that face cosmologists today, and it is the excitement and wonder of their research that Michael Lemonick shares in this lively tour of the current state of astrophysics and cosmology. Here
Inhalt:
Cover; Contents ; Preface (1995); Acknowlegments ; Introduction; How Old Is the Universe?; New Physics; New Searches; ""It's Like Seeing God""; Epilogue (1995); Index
Anmerkung:
Includes index
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Originally published: New York : Villard Books, 1993
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lemonick, Michael D Light at the edge of the universe : dispatches from the front lines of cosmology Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1995
Sprache:
Englisch
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