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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Ostriker, Jeremiah Paul (1937-....)
Mitton, Simon (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Heart of darkness [Texte électronique] : unraveling the mysteries of the invisible universe / Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton
Publication : Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (xxi, 299 pages)
Collection : Science essentials
Note(s) : "Heart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the
deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past thirty years, scientists have learned
that two little-understood components--dark matter and dark energy--comprise most
of the known cosmos, explain the growth of all cosmic structure, and hold the key
to the universe's fate"--Book jacket.
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Princeton university press. Auteur ou responsable intellectuel
Sujet(s) : Énergie sombre (astronomie)
Matière noire (astronomie)
Genre ou forme : Ouvrages de vulgarisation
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781400844647
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435709100
Notice n° :
FRBNF43570910
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
