EPUB | 1.51 MB | 208 pages | English | 2011
For millennia
humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the
planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own
time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness
of the cosmos come clearly into focus.
The pace and sophistication of
recent scientific discovery has been breathtaking, but breakthroughs are often
difficult to understand and their impact is hard to fully appreciate. In 50
Ideas You Really Need to Know: Universe, Joanne Baker clearly and concisely
explains all of the essential concepts, major discoveries and the very latest
thinking in astrophysics, including: the basic principles of astronomy - from
heliocentrism to Newton's theory of optics; the constituent parts of the
Universe, its creation and evolution; the key concepts of cosmology including
the theory of relativity, supermassive black holes and 'multiverses'; the very
latest developments in our understanding of quasars, exoplanets and
astrobiology.
From dwarf planets to dark energy; and from the Big Bang
to the death of stars, this book is the perfect introduction to the cutting-edge
science that is shaping our understanding of our place in the Universe and that
could lead to the next great discovery - the detection of life beyond
Earth.
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