Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples
by Marcus Chown
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This text examines scientific knowledge of the cosmic background radiation, the afterglow of the Big Bang in which the universe was born 15 billion years ago. It relates the search for the origins of the universe, beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite.Tags
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Fascinating dicussion on the history of background microwave radiation research, and what it tells us about the early universe.
If you're anything like me, something threatening to talk about radiation microwaves probably sounds hopelessly dry, but the subject matter is delivered in such a way that the issues are clear, and yet the reader is not patronised, and can enjoy the potential mind-blowingness of the discoveries without a degree in astrophysics.
Really recommended.
If you're anything like me, something threatening to talk about radiation microwaves probably sounds hopelessly dry, but the subject matter is delivered in such a way that the issues are clear, and yet the reader is not patronised, and can enjoy the potential mind-blowingness of the discoveries without a degree in astrophysics.
Really recommended.
Not only informative but very well written, not a long book but I just couldn't put it down.
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Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Marcus Chown is cosmology consultant of New Scientist. His books include The Ascent of Gravity (named the Sunday Times 2017 Science Book of the Year), What A Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, and We Need to Talk About Kelvin.
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- Original publication date
- 1993
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