The Infinite Cosmos - Questions From the Frontiers of Cosmology

In The Infinite Cosmos Joseph Silk takes the reader on a tour of the universe, past, present, and future, showing how the very latest observations and theories are unlocking clues about its origin and structure: X-ray, radio, and high-energy views of space are revealing fossil radiation left over from the big bang and providing us with unprecedented views of the most distant reaches of the universe. Theories from the frontiers of current research seek to explain its structure from the first moments to the present day, and we are beginning to understand its extraordinary nature and possible fate. This is a story involving the visible and the invisible; subatomic particles and unusual forces; long ages of darkness and spectacular and violent events. It tells of supernovae, dark matter, dark energy, curved spacetime, colliding galaxies, and supermassive black holes. Weaving the ideas of poets and writers as well as scientists into the story, from Kant and Keats to Einstein and Lemaître, Silk explains our present state of knowledge, and how much more there is to understand about our infinite cosmos.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Silk, Joseph (Savilian Professor of Astronomy Silk, Silk Joseph
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2008
• EAN: 9780199533619
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953361-9
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; popular science, NATURE / Sky Observation, Cosmology & the universe, Popular astronomy & space, Cosmology and the universe, Popular astronomy and space, Galaxies & stars, Galaxies and stars, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy