How Old Is the Universe? / / David A. Weintraub.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Weintraub, David A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 46 halftones. 76 line illus.

Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe? tells the incredible story of how astronomers solved one of the most compelling mysteries in science and, along the way, introduces readers to funda...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction: 13.7 Billion Years
• I. The Age of Objects in Our Solar System
• Chapter 2. 4004 BCE
• Chapter 3. Moon Rocks and Meteorites
• Chapter 4. Defying Gravity
• II. The Ages of the Oldest Stars
• Chapter 5. Stepping Out
• Chapter 6. Distances and Light
• Chapter 7. All Stars Are Not the Same
• Chapter 8. Giant and Dwarf Stars
• Chapter 9. Reading a Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) Diagram
• Chapter 10. Mass
• Chapter 11. Star Clusters
• Chapter 12. Mass Matters
• Chapter 13. White Dwarfs and the Age of the Universe
• Chapter 14. Ages of Globular Clusters and the Age of the Universe
• III. The Age of the Universe
• Chapter 15. Cepheids
• Chapter 16. An Irregular System of Globular Clusters
• Chapter 17. The Milky Way Demoted
• Chapter 18. The Trouble with Gravity
• Chapter 19. The Expanding Universe
• Chapter 20. The Hubble Age of the Universe
• Chapter 21. The Accelerating Universe
• Chapter 22. Dark Matter
• Chapter 23. Exotic Dark Matter
• Chapter 24. Hot Stuff
• Chapter 25. Two Kinds of Trouble
• Chapter 26. The WMAP Map of the CMB and the Age of the Universe
• Chapter 27. A Consistent Answer
• Index