Introducing the Universe - Brossura

Pirani, Felix; Roche, Christine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1874166064 ISBN 13: 9781874166061

Casa editrice: Icon Books, 1993

Riassunto

90% or more of the matter in the universe is unseen. Nobody knows what it is. The universe expands, but nobody knows how long the expansion has been going on. Will it expand forever, or collapse in a Big Crunch, perhaps a Big Bang in reverse? From Aristotle to Newton, Einstein and quantum mechanics, this book recounts the revolutions in physics and astronomy which underlie the present-day scientific picture of the universe. It describes the scale of things, from atoms to galactic superclusters, and sketches the cosmological theories, based on Einstein's theory of general relativity, used to describe the universe's expansion. It discusses the significance of the cosmic background satellite observations, and explains why current theories have nothing reliable to say about whether the universe had a "beginning".

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Book by Felix Pirani Christine Roche

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Icon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1874166064
• ISBN 13: 9781874166061
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 175