Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples - Couverture rigide

Chown, Marcus

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0935702407 ISBN 13 : 9780935702408

Editeur : University Science Books,U.S., 1996

Synopsis

This is the story of the cosmic background radiation - the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang in which the Universe was born - and how it was discovered. Chown brilliantly weaves a tale of the search for the origins of the Universe, beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite and its crucial discovery.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that was identified as the afterglow of the big bang had to admit that it was more by accident than intention. At first its discoverers mistook the readings for the disruption caused by the droppings of pigeons that had nested in their telescope, and yet they went on to win the Nobel prize.

In the mid-1990s New Scientist writer Marcus Chown drove across America to interview the key scientists who had made this astonishing discovery. Their account and Chown's description of their achievement was published to much acclaim. But now, over a decade later, in this new and fully revised edition he goes behind the hype and the hysteria to provide a clear and lively explanation of one of the biggest discoveries in modern science - and a brilliant picture of what happened next.

Biographie de l'auteur

Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is currently cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. His most recent books are We Need to Talk About Kelvin, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead. He has also written a work for children, Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Science Books,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0935702407
• ISBN 13: 9780935702408
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible