The Extravagant Universe : : Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos / / Robert P. Kirshner.
The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe i...
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Kirshner, Robert P., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Extravagant Universe : Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos / Robert P. Kirshner. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016] ©2017 1 online resource (304 p.) : 11 color illus. 29 halftones. 12 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Science Library ; 94 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. The Big Picture -- CHAPTER 2. Violent Agents of Cosmic Change -- CHAPTER 3. Another Way to Explode -- CHAPTER 4. Einstein Adds a Constant -- CHAPTER 5. Cosmic Expansion -- CHAPTER 6. What Time Is It? -- CHAPTER 7. A Hot Day in Holmdel -- CHAPTER 8. Learning to Swim -- CHAPTER 9. Getting It First -- CHAPTER 10. Getting It Right -- CHAPTER 11. The Smoking Gun? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a dark energy that makes space itself expand. In addition to sharing the story of this exciting discovery, Kirshner also brings the science up-to-date in a new epilogue. He explains how the idea of an accelerating universe--once a daring interpretation of sketchy data--is now the standard assumption in cosmology today. This measurement of dark energy--a quality of space itself that causes cosmic acceleration--points to a gaping hole in our understanding of fundamental physics. In 1917, Einstein proposed the "cosmological constant" to explain a static universe. When observations proved that the universe was expanding, he cast this early form of dark energy aside. But recent observations described first-hand in this book show that the cosmological constant--or something just like it--dominates the universe's mass and energy budget and determines its fate and shape. Warned by Einstein's blunder, and contradicted by the initial results of a competing research team, Kirshner and his colleagues were reluctant to accept their own result. But, convinced by evidence built on their hard-earned understanding of exploding stars, they announced their conclusion that the universe is accelerating in February 1998. Other lines of inquiry and parallel supernova research now support a new synthesis of a cosmos dominated by dark energy but also containing several forms of dark matter. We live in an extravagant universe with a surprising number of essential ingredients: the real universe we measure is not the simplest one we could imagine. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Dark energy (Astronomy). Supernovae. SCIENCE / Astronomy. bisacsh Kirshner, Robert P. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110543322 print 9780691173184 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400883806?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400883806 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400883806.jpg |
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