Einstein's Greatest Blunder? - The Cosmological Constant and Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe - The Cosmological Constant and other fudge factors in the physics of the universe

This brief and witty book, by the award-winning science writer Donald Goldsmith, takes on key questions about the origin and evolution of the cosmos. By clearly laying out what we currently know about the universe as a whole, Goldsmith lets us see firsthand whether modern cosmology is in a state of crisis.

About the author

Donald Goldsmith has written more than a dozen books, including Exoplanets, The Runaway Universe, The Hunt for Life on Mars, Supernova, and, with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Origins. He has received lifetime achievement awards for astronomy education from the American Astronomical Society and for the popularization of astronomy from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Summary

Award-winning science writer Goldsmith clearly lays out what we currently know about the universe as a whole. Richly illustrated with photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, this book puts the biggest subject of all—the story of the universe as scientists understand it—within the grasp of English-speaking earthlings.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Goldsmith, Donald W. Goldsmith
• Publisher: GB Gardners Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780674242425
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24242-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 410 g
• Illustrations: w. figs. (some col.)
• Series: Questions of Science; Questions of Science; Questions of Science (HUP)
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy