Cosmic Web - Mysterious Architecture of the Universe

The Cosmic Web begins with modern pioneers of extragalactic astronomy, such as Edwin Hubble and Fritz Zwicky. It goes on to describe how, during the Cold War, the American school of cosmology favored a model of the universe where galaxies resided in isolated clusters, whereas the Soviet school favored a honeycomb pattern of galaxies punctuated by giant, isolated voids. Gott tells the stories of how his own path to a solution began with a high-school science project when he was eighteen, and how he and astronomer Mario Juric measured the Sloan Great Wall of Galaxies, a filament of galaxies that, at 1.37 billion light-years in length, is one of the largest structures in the universe.

Info autore

J. Richard Gott

Riassunto

A gripping first-person account of how scientists came to understand our universe's mysterious structureJ. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies-a magnificent structure now called the "cosmic web"

Testo aggiuntivo

"Fascinating. . . . I think it should be in every library which aims to cover astrophysics and cosmology."---G.W. Gibbons, Contemporary Physics

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: J Richard Gott, J. Richard Gott, Gott J. Richard
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780691181172
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18117-2
• Pagine: 288
• Categorie: Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Scienze naturali; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Fisica, astronomia > Astronomia; NATURE / Sky Observation, Popular astronomy & space, Popular astronomy and space