Physical Cosmology / / P. J. E. Peebles.
Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by means of radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray astronomy, can penetrate the universe to depths never before explored. P.J.E. Peebles has wri...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1972 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Series in Physics ;
67 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Contents
- I. Golden Moments in Cosmology 1912-1950
- II. The Homogeneity and Isotropy of the Universe
- III. Hubble's Constant and the Cosmic Time Scale
- IV. The Mean Mass Density of the Universe
- V. The Microwave Background and the Primeval Fireball Hypothesis
- VI. A Child's Garden of Cosmological Models
- VII. History of the Universe - Scenarios
- VIII. Primeval Helium
- Appendix. Notation, Conventions and Units