The Light at the Edge of the Universe : : Dispatches from the Front Lines of Cosmology / / Michael D. Lemonick.
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 W...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | With a New preface and epilogue by the author |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
303 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (370 p.) :; 50 halftones 3 figs. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface (1995)
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. WHO NEEDS DARK MATTER?
- 3. WHERE THE GALAXIES ARE
- 4. THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE
- 5. WEIGHING THE UNIVERSE
- 6. HOW OLD IS THE UNIVERSE?
- 7. NEW PHYSICS
- 8. NEW SEARCHES
- 9. " IT'S LIKE SEEING GOD"
- EPILOGUE (1995)
- INDEX