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Format: xvi, 267 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme , 25 cm

ISBN: 9780300204414 , 0300204418 , 9780300227031

Content: For all curious readers, a lively introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe. --Publisher

Content: Preface -- Early cosmic maps -- The growing border : the universe expands -- The dark center : black holes become real -- The invisible grid : coping with dark matter -- The changing scale : the accelerating universe -- The next wrinkle : the discovery of cosmic background radiation -- The new reality and the quest for other worlds -- Epilogue

Note: Literaturangaben , Engl.

Language: English

Subjects: Physics

Keywords: Kosmologie ; Geschichte

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Format: 1 online resource (292 p.)

ISBN: 0-300-22112-6

Content: This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries-the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the research-an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe. She not only explains for a wide audience the science behind these essential ideas but also provides an understanding of how radical scientific theories gain acceptance. The formation and growth of black holes, dark matter halos, the accelerating expansion of the universe, the echo of the big bang, the discovery of exoplanets, and the possibility of other universes-these are some of the puzzling cosmological topics of the early twenty-first century. Natarajan discusses why the acceptance of new ideas about the universe and our place in it has never been linear and always contested even within the scientific community. And she affirms that, shifting and incomplete as science always must be, it offers the best path we have toward making sense of our wondrous, mysterious universe.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , PREFACE -- , 1. EARLY COSMIC MAPS -- , 2. THE GROWING BORDER: THE UNIVERSE EXPANDS -- , 3. THE DARK CENTER: BLACK HOLES BECOME REAL -- , 4. THE INVISIBLE GIRD: COPING WITH DARK MATTER -- , 5. THE CHANCING SCALE: THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE -- , 6. THE NEXT WRINKLE: THE DISCOVERY OF COSMIC BACKGROUND RADIATION -- , 7. THE NEW REALITY AND THE QUEST FOR OTHER WORLDS -- , EPILOGUE -- , NOTES -- , SUGGESTED FURTHER READING -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , INDEX , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-300-20441-8

Language: English

DOI: 10.12987/9780300221121

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Format: 12 Illustrationen

ISBN: 9780300204414

Note: Engl.

In: Natarajan, Priyamvada, Mapping the heavens, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016, (2016), Seite 1-28, 9780300204414

In: 0300204418

In: 9780300227031

In: year:2016

In: pages:1-28

Language: English