Three steps to the universe : from the sun to black holes to the mystery of dark matter /
Garfinkle, David, 1958-
Three steps to the universe : from the sun to black holes to the mystery of dark matter / David Garfinkle & Richard Garfinkle. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2008. - vii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265).
The sun -- Look, don't touch -- What's that big bright thing made of? -- Fusion : energy hidden in plain sight -- Black holes -- Old gravity and new gravity -- Black holes in relativity -- The lives of stars -- Black hole hunting -- Gravitational waves -- Dark matter-dark energy -- Galactic scale -- What is dark matter? -- All the way out -- Dark energy, antigravity, and Einstein's fudge -- A step back to earth -- Road maps -- Science as it is written -- Glossary.
9780226283463 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226283461 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008008659
GBA898223 bnb
014691166 Uk
Black holes (Astronomy)
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Sun.
QB521 / .G29 2008
520
Three steps to the universe : from the sun to black holes to the mystery of dark matter / David Garfinkle & Richard Garfinkle. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2008. - vii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265).
The sun -- Look, don't touch -- What's that big bright thing made of? -- Fusion : energy hidden in plain sight -- Black holes -- Old gravity and new gravity -- Black holes in relativity -- The lives of stars -- Black hole hunting -- Gravitational waves -- Dark matter-dark energy -- Galactic scale -- What is dark matter? -- All the way out -- Dark energy, antigravity, and Einstein's fudge -- A step back to earth -- Road maps -- Science as it is written -- Glossary.
9780226283463 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226283461 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008008659
GBA898223 bnb
014691166 Uk
Black holes (Astronomy)
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Sun.
QB521 / .G29 2008
520