Cosmological Enigmas: Pulsars, Quasars, and Other Deep-Space Questions - Hardcover

Kidger, Mark

 
9780801884603: Cosmological Enigmas: Pulsars, Quasars, and Other Deep-Space Questions
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0801884608 ISBN 13: 9780801884603
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The universe is big. Really big. And it gets bigger every day. In Cosmological Enigmas, Mark Kidger weaves together history, science, and science fiction to consider questions about the bigness of space and the strange objects that lie trembling at the edge of infinity. What are quasars, blazars, and gamma-ray bursters? Could we ever travel to the stars? Can we really expect aliens to contact us? From the profound (what evidence do we have to support the big bang theory?) to the bizarre (can there be more than one universe and, if so, how many dimensions does it possess?) to the everyday-yet-profound (why is the sky dark at night?), Kidger explains not only what we know but how we came to know it. Reflecting on how stars shine and what may lie beyond the edge of the universe, Kidger takes us on the ultimate cosmic journey.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Kidger is an astronomer at the European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid. He is the author of Astronomical Enigmas: Life on Mars, the Star of Bethlehem, and Other Milky Way Mysteries, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801884608
ISBN 13 
9780801884603
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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