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100 1 $aOstriker, J. P.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aHeart of darkness :$bunraveling the mysteries of the invisible universe /$cJeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton.
246 3 $aUnraveling the mysteries of the invisible universe
264 1 $aPrinceton, N.J. ;$aOxford :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2013].
264 4 $c©2013
300 $axxi, 299 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aScience essentials
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-293) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: From myth to reality: Astronomy : the endless frontier ; Charting and modeling the heavens ; Copernicus : "the last of the Greek cosmologists" ; Galileo : a new approach to mechanics and cosmology ; The impact of Copernicus : Kepler's Laws ; Isaac Newton and gravity ; William Herschel discovers the universe ; Understanding the universe becomes a new kind of science -- Einstein's toolkit, and how to use it: Overconfidence among the cognoscenti at the dawn of the twentieth century ; Revolution in physics : the inception of quantum theory and relativity ; Special relativity ; General relativity ; General relativity is tested, passes the test, and is a sensation ; Cosmological solutions to Einstein's equations --
505 0 $aThe realm of the nebulae: New instruments in a better climate unveil a new world ; A universe of galaxies is confirmed ; A cosmological model to fit the new data : enter, Georges Lemaître ; Physical cosmology and the expanding universe ; Lemaître's synthesis model foretells the contribution of dark energy ; Hubble's achievements ; Big science to attack the big problem ; The steady state model universe and the Big Bang -- Let's do cosmology!: The Big Bang : a starting point that cannot be escaped ; Observational cosmology, the biggest puzzle to be solved with the biggest telescope ; The grand project was initially too difficult -- Discovering the Big Bang: Did our universe have an explosive birth? ; What makes the stars shine? ; Nuclear astrophysics moves to the cosmos ; The fireball in which the first chemical elements were made ; Direct radio observations of the Big Bang fireball ; Understanding the Big Bang --
505 0 $aThe origin of structure in the universe: "In the beginning" : why an explanation is needed ; Structure within the expanding universe ; The elusive standard candle : Beatrice Tinsley changes the game ; Real cosmic structure found and cataloged by Fritz Zwicky ; Understanding the origin of structure becomes serious science ; Cosmic inflation ; The seeds of cosmic structure are discovered ; Closing the loop : how do seeds grow to galaxies? -- Dark matter : or Fritz Zwicky's greatest invention: How the earth was weighed ; Finding the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy ; Zwicky finds dark matter in clusters of galaxies in the 1930s ; The rediscovery of dark matter in the 1970s ; Rotation curves confirm the case for dark matter ; More recent multiple lines of evidence for dark matter --
505 0 $aDark energy : or Einstein's greatest blunder: A curious situation ; Will gravity lead to a collapse of the solar system? ; Expected and unexpected motions of thrown stones and Hubble's universe ; The invention of the cosmological constant or dark energy : 1915 ; The revival of dark energy in the 1970s ; New arguments and new evidence : dark energy confirmed in the 1990s ; Dark energy fills the gap, allowing the flat, "just right" universe -- The modern paradigm and the limits of our knowledge: We have come a long way ; The matter and energy content of the universe ; The global cosmological solution and the cosmic triangle ; In the beginning ; Structure in the universe ; The supercomputer approach -- The frontier : major mysteries that remain: Dark matter ; Dark energy ; Inflation ; Giant black holes ; Fine-tuning -- Summing up.
520 $aHeart of Darknessdescribes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past thirty years, scientists have learned that two little-understood components--dark matter and dark energy--comprise most of the known cosmos, explain the growth of all cosmic structure, and hold the key to the universe's fate.
650 0 $aCosmology$vPopular works.
650 0 $aDark energy (Astronomy)$vPopular works.
650 0 $aDark matter (Astronomy)$vPopular works.
700 1 $aMitton, Simon,$d1946-$eauthor.
830 0 $aScience essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))
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