The Extravagant Universe : Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos /
The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe i...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface -- |t CHAPTER 1. The Big Picture -- |t CHAPTER 2. Violent Agents of Cosmic Change -- |t CHAPTER 3. Another Way to Explode -- |t CHAPTER 4. Einstein Adds a Constant -- |t CHAPTER 5. Cosmic Expansion -- |t CHAPTER 6. What Time Is It? -- |t CHAPTER 7. A Hot Day in Holmdel -- |t CHAPTER 8. Learning to Swim -- |t CHAPTER 9. Getting It First -- |t CHAPTER 10. Getting It Right -- |t CHAPTER 11. The Smoking Gun? -- |t Epilogue -- |t Notes -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a dark energy that makes space itself expand. In addition to sharing the story of this exciting discovery, Kirshner also brings the science up-to-date in a new epilogue. He explains how the idea of an accelerating universe--once a daring interpretation of sketchy data--is now the standard assumption in cosmology today. This measurement of dark energy--a quality of space itself that causes cosmic acceleration--points to a gaping hole in our understanding of fundamental physics. In 1917, Einstein proposed the "cosmological constant" to explain a static universe. When observations proved that the universe was expanding, he cast this early form of dark energy aside. But recent observations described first-hand in this book show that the cosmological constant--or something just like it--dominates the universe's mass and energy budget and determines its fate and shape. Warned by Einstein's blunder, and contradicted by the initial results of a competing research team, Kirshner and his colleagues were reluctant to accept their own result. But, convinced by evidence built on their hard-earned understanding of exploding stars, they announced their conclusion that the universe is accelerating in February 1998. Other lines of inquiry and parallel supernova research now support a new synthesis of a cosmos dominated by dark energy but also containing several forms of dark matter. We live in an extravagant universe with a surprising number of essential ingredients: the real universe we measure is not the simplest one we could imagine. | ||
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