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Book

Alpha and Omega : the search for the beginning and end of the universe

Call Number

  • 523.1 S459 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Viking, c2003.

Physical Description

viii, 294 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Contents

  • The first cosmology : the golden age of the gods
  • The first cosmological revolution : the Copernican theory
  • The second cosmological revolution : Hubble and the Big Bang
  • The third revolution begins : the universe amok
  • The music of the spheres : the cosmic microwave background
  • The dark universe : what's the matter with matter?
  • Darker still : the enigma of exotic dark matter
  • The Big Bang in our backyard : the birth of baryons
  • The good nus : the exotic neutrino
  • Supersymmetry : fearlessly framing the laws of matter
  • Seeing the invisible : MACHOs, WIMPs, and illuminating the darkest regions of the universe
  • The deepest mystery in physics : L, the vacuum, and inflation
  • Wrinkles in spacetime : gravitational waves and the early universe
  • Beyond the third revolution : voyage to the ends of time
  • Appendix A : tired light retired
  • Appendix B : Where does matter come from?
  • Appendix C : Nobel prizes in physics, past and future
  • Appendix D : some experiments to watch.

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