Calibrating the Cosmos [E-Book] : How Cosmology Explains Our Big Bang Universe / edited by Frank S. Levin.
Calibrating the Cosmos describes hard science, but is gently written. It explains in clear, non-mathematical language the measurements and the interpretation of the resulting data that have led to the current understanding of the origin, evolution and properties of our expanding Big Bang universe. M...
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Personal Name(s): | Levin, Frank S., editor |
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New York, NY :
Springer,
2007
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Physical Description: |
IX, 301 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9780387497686 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-0-387-49768-6 |
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Astronomers’ Universe Series
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- Introduction: The Splendid Science
- Measuring Distances: On the Earth, in the Solar System, to the Nearby Stars
- Light, Radiation, and Quanta
- Stars: Attributes, Energetics, End Stages
- The Expanding Universe
- Homogeneous, Isotropic Universes
- The Parameters of the Universe
- The Early Universe
- Conjectures.