The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology - Softcover

Silk, Joseph

 
9780199533619: The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 019953361X ISBN 13: 9780199533619
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

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In The Infinite Cosmos Joseph Silk takes the reader on a tour of the universe, past, present, and future, showing how the very latest observations and theories are unlocking clues about its origin and structure: X-ray, radio, and high-energy views of the most distant reaches of the universe. Theories from the frontiers of current research seek to explain its structure from the first moments to the present day, and we are beginning to understand its extraordinary nature and possible fate.
This is a story involving the visible and the invisible; subatomic particles and unusual forces; long ages of darkness and spectacular and violent events. It tells of supernovae, dark matter, dark energy, curved spacetime, colliding galaxies, and supermassive black holes. Weaving the ideas of poets and writers as well as scientists into the story, from Kant and Keats to Einstein and Lemaître, Silk explains our present state of knowledge, and how much more there is to understand about our infinite cosmos.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joseph Silk is Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford. He has published a number of books on cosmology for the general reader, including The Big Bang (W. H. Freeman), The Left Hand of Creation (with J. D. Barrow, published by Oxford University Press), and On the Shores of the Unknown (Cambridge University Press).


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Verlag
Oxford University Press, USA
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
019953361X
ISBN 13 
9780199533619
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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