Introducing the universe

著者

• Pirani, F. A. E. (Felix Arnold Edward)
• Roche, Christine
• Appignanesi, Richard

書誌事項

Introducing the universe

Felix Pirani and Christine Roche ; edited by Richard Appignanesi

Icon, 1999, c1993

統一タイトル

Universe for beginners

注記

Previously published as: The universe for beginners, 1993

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Ninety percent 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, Introducing The Universe 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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA61764997
• ISBN:
  • 1840460687
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge
• ページ数/冊数: 175 p.
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 523.1
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Cosmology