Gravity's lens : views of the new cosmology

Author(s)

• Cohen, Nathan

Bibliographic Information

Gravity's lens : views of the new cosmology

Nathan Cohen

（Science editions）

Wiley, c1989

• : pbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

• 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.

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Details

• NCID: BD02390728
• ISBN:
  • 0471510548
• LCCN: 88014353
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 237 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QB981
  • DC19 : 523.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Cosmology
  • LCSH : Gravitational lenses
  • LCSH : Radio astronomy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04250400