Cosmology and Controversy : The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe /

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For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transformed into a branch of physics. With this remarkably rapid change came a theory that would finally lend empirical support to many long-held beli...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kragh, Helge (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Cosmology > History.
SCIENCE / History.
Andromeda galaxy.
Bell Laboratories.
Cavendish Laboratory.
Cepheid method.
Christian belief.
Einstein world model.
Einstein, Albert.
Frederiks, Vsevelod.
George Washington University.
Gödel model.
Haldane-Milne hypothesis.
Hoyle-Narlikar theories.
Jordan, Pascual.
Kaluza-Klein theory.
Lemaître, Georges Édouard.
Mach's principle.
Mount Palomar Observatory.
absolute magnitude.
absorber theory of radiation.
accretion processes.
aesthetic arguments.
annihilation processes.
antimatter.
beginning of the world.
big-bang cosmology.
big-bang universe.
bubble universes.
conservation laws.
creation of matter.
deductive cosmology.
dialectical materialism.
discovery process.
energy conservation.
ether squirt hypothesis.
falsificationism.
fireworks universe.
galaxy formation.
gamma ray test.
hot steady-state model.
ideology.
infinities.
kinematic relativity.
large-number hypothesis.
mass gap problem.
national differences in cosmology.
neutrinos.
observational approach.
parity nonconservation.
philosophical aspects.
polyneutrons.
radiation in universe.
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