Gravity's Lens
Views of the New Cosmology
Published on 1. December 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-471-51054-3 (ISBN)
Description
Amazing things are happening in the outermost reaches of space. Jetstars, black holes, and cosmic mirages, things scientists never imagined possible. This volume provides an up to date and authoritative account of the new ideas that are fundamentally changing our understanding of the universe. It explains what our cosmos is made of, how much matter it holds, and why matter is invisible to our telescopes and shows how our understanding of the universe has developed over the years, from Galileo to Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Harlow Shapley and others.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 78 mm
Width: 34 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-51054-3 (9780471510543)
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Content
PRE-VIEWS; Unveiling the Universe; After Hubble--Quasars, CBR, and the Standard Cosmological Model; Cosmological Tests and the Cosmic Questions; NEW VIEWS; The Radio Universe; Galaxies, Quasars, and the Evolution Revolution; Micromegas--Inflationary Universe and the Particle Zoo; Gravity's Lens--The Cosmic Mirage; Swiss Cheese Universe--Bubbles, Voids, Streaming, and Clusters; Dark Matter--What and Where Is It?; FUTURE VIEWS; Frontiers--Breakthroughs and Tomorrow's Cosmology; Glossary Index.