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

Silk, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 019953361X ISBN 13: 9780199533619

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Riassunto

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 space are revealing fossil radiation left over from the big bang and providing us with unprecedented 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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Recensione:

Review from previous edition This book packs so much into a decidedly finite space. Silk covers everything you might hope to find in a book by one of the world's leading cosmologists, and much more besides... Accessible and informative. (Peter Coles, Nature)

This is an outstanding work, suited to readers of all ages and all backgrounds, and is recommended without the slightest hesitation. (Patrick Moore, THES)

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 019953361X
• ISBN 13: 9780199533619
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256