Three Steps to the Universe - From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter

Informationen zum Autor David Garfinkle is professor in the Department of Physics at Oakland University. Richard Garfinkle is the author of two books of science fiction! Celestial Matters and All of an Instant. Klappentext If scientists can't touch the Sun! how do they know what it's made of? And if we can't see black holes! how can we be confident they exist? From the Sun and black holes! the authors lead us further into the unknown! to the dark matter and energy that pervade our universe! where science teeters on the edge of theory and discovery. Zusammenfassung If scientists can't touch the Sun! how do they know what it's made of? And if we can't see black holes! how can we be confident they exist? From the Sun and black holes! the authors lead us further into the unknown! to the dark matter and energy that pervade our universe! where science teeters on the edge of theory and discovery.

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• Authors: David Garfinkle, David Garfinkle Garfinkle, David/ Garfinkle Garfinkle, Richard Garfinkle, Garfinkle David, GARFINKLE DAVID GARFINKLE RICHARD, Garfinkle Richard
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2010
• EAN: 9780226283487
• ISBN: 978-0-226-28348-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; popular science, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology