Heart of darkness : : unraveling the mysteries of the invisible universe /

• Material Type: 図書
• ISBN: [0691134308]; 9780691134307 (acid-free paper)
• Title: Heart of darkness : : unraveling the mysteries of the invisible universe /
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Princeton, N.J. ; : Princeton University Press,
• Publication Date: c2013.
• Extent: xxi, 299 p. : ; 25 cm.
• Contributor: Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton.
• Text Language Code: eng
• NDC 10th ed.: 443.9 : Fixed stars
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (General): Prologue: From myth to reality: Astronomy : the endless frontier ; Charting and modeling the heavens ; Copernicus: "the last of the Greek cosmologists" ; Galileo: a new approach to mechanics and cosmology ; The impact of Copernicus: Kepler's Laws ; Isaac Newton and gravity ; William Herschel discovers the universe ; Understanding the universe becomes a new kind of science -- Einstein's toolkit, and how to use it : Overconfidence among the cognoscenti at the dawn of the twentieth century ; Revolution in physics: the inception of quantum theory and relativity ; Special relativity ; General relativity ; General relativity is tested, passes the test, and is a sensation ; Cosmological solutions to Einstein's equations -- The realm of the nebulae : New instruments in a better climate unveil a new world ; A universe of galaxies is confirmed ; A cosmological model to fit the new data: enter, Georges Lemaître ; Physical cosmology and the expanding universe ; Lemaître's synthesis model foretells the contribution of dark energy ; Hubble's achievements ; Big science to attack the big problem ; The steady state model universe and the Big Bang -- Let's do cosmology! : The Big Bang: a starting point that cannot be escaped ; Observational cosmology, the biggest puzzle to be solved with the biggest telescope ; The grand project was initially too difficult -- Discovering the Big Bang : Did our universe have an explosive birth? ; What makes the stars shine? ; Nuclear astrophysics moves to the cosmos ; The fireball in which the first chemical elements were made ; Direct radio observations of the Big Bang fireball ; Understanding the Big Bang -- The origin of structure in the universe : "In the beginning": why an explanation is needed ; Structure within the expanding universe ; The elusive standard candle: Beatrice Tinsley changes the game ; Real cosmic structure found and cataloged by Fritz Zwicky ; Understanding the origin of structure becomes serious science ; Cosmic inflation ; The seeds of cosmic structure are discovered ; Closing the loop: how do seeds grow to galaxies? -- Dark matter: or Fritz Zwicky's greatest invention : How the earth was weighed ; Finding the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy ; Zwicky finds dark matter in clusters of galaxies in the 1930s ; The rediscovery of dark matter in the 1970s ; Rotation curves confirm the case for dark matter ; More recent multiple lines of evidence for dark matter -- Dark energy: or Einstein's greatest blunder : A curious situation ; Will gravity lead to a collapse of the solar system? ; Expected and unexpected motions of thrown stones and Hubble's universe ; The invention of the cosmological constant or dark energy: 1915 ; The revival of dark energy in the 1970s ; New arguments and new evidence: dark energy confirmed in the 1990s ; Dark energy fills the gap, allowing the flat, "just right" universe -- The modern paradigm and the limits of our knowledge : We have come a long way ; The matter and energy content of the universe ; The global cosmological solution and the cosmic triangle ; In the beginning ; Structure in the universe ; The supercomputer approach -- The frontier: major mysteries that remain : Dark matter ; Dark energy ; Inflation ; Giant black holes ; Fine-tuning ; Summing up.
• Holding library: 東京都立中央図書館
• Note (Library): 301
• Call No.: 443.9-O85-H
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• Bibliographic ID (SomokuID): 1352010475; 7103891732
• OCLC No.: 2012950892; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2012950892; (OCoLC)812686425; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/(OCoLC)812686425