The Day We Found the Universe
On January 1, 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that astronomers and physicists had made a mistake: previously, his colleagues had conceptualized the universe as being identical with the Milky Way; Hubble's discovery proved that it was 1,000 trillion times larger. Marcia Bartusiak's The Day We Found...
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On January 1, 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that astronomers and physicists had made a mistake: previously, his colleagues had conceptualized the universe as being identical with the Milky Way; Hubble's discovery proved that it was 1,000 trillion times larger. Marcia Bartusiak's The Day We Found the Universe describes how this young scientist's breakthrough caused even Einstein to reformulate his cosmic model, but even more interestingly, she shows how the research of Einstein and others carried Hubble's great leap forward.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375424298 (0375424296)
ASIN: 375424296
Publish date: April 7th 2009
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
This book provides a virtual front row seat to the discoveries of facts about the universe that were bigger, stranger, and more spectacular than anybody could have imagined at the beginning of the 20th Century. Today the newness has worn off of such terms as expanding universe, space-time continuum...
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