The Cosmic Web
Mysterious Architecture of the Universe
The Cosmic Web begins with modern pioneers of extragalactic astronomy, such as Edwin Hubble and Fritz Zwicky. It goes on to describe how, during the Cold War, the American school of cosmology favored a model of the universe where galaxies resided in isolated clusters, whereas the Soviet school favored a honeycomb pattern of galaxies punctuated by giant, isolated voids. Gott tells the stories of how his own path to a solution began with a high-school science project when he was eighteen, and how he and astronomer Mario Juric measured the Sloan Great Wall of Galaxies, a filament of galaxies that, at 1.37 billion light-years in length, is one of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-18117-2
- EAN: 9780691181172
- Produktnummer: 24191987
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.2 cm 431 g
- Abbildungen: 16 color + 44 b/w illus.
- Gewicht: 431
Über den Autor
J. Richard Gott is professor emeritus of astrophysics at Princeton University. He is the coauthor of Welcome to the Universe (Princeton).
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