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  • Cosmic Discovery

    The Search, Scope, and Heritage of Astronomy

    de Martin Harwit ...
    Martin Harwit's influential book, Cosmic Discovery, is rereleased after more than thirty-five years, with a new preface written by the author. The work chronicles the astronomical discoveries up to the late twentieth century and draws conclusions that major discoveries have often been unexpected, unrelated to prevailing astronomical theories and made by outsiders from other fields. One trend alone ... Leer más

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  • Cosmic Messengers

    The Limits of Astronomy in an Unruly Universe

    de Martin Harwit ...
    Martin Harwit, author of the influential book Cosmic Discovery, asks key questions about the scope of observational astronomy. Humans have long sought to understand the world we inhabit. Recent realization of how our unruly Universe distorts information before it ever reaches us reveals distinct limits on how well we will ultimately understand the Cosmos. Even the best instruments we might ... Leer más

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  • In Search of the True Universe

    The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought

    de Martin Harwit ...
    Astrophysicist and scholar Martin Harwit examines how our understanding of the cosmos advanced rapidly during the twentieth century and identifies the factors contributing to this progress. Astronomy, whose tools were largely imported from physics and engineering, benefited mid-century from the US policy of coupling basic research with practical national priorities. This strategy, initially ... Leer más

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  • Higgs Discovery

    The Power of Empty Space

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    On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes both the most elementary components that are known in matter and the forces through ... Leer más

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  • Endless Universe

    Beyond the Big Bang

    **Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that “steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory.” —**Wall Street JournalThe Big Bang theory—widely regarded as the leading explanation for the origin of the universe—posits that space and time sprang into being about 14 billion years ago in a hot, expanding fireball of nearly infinite density. Over the last three ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Cosmology

    Drawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience, on the subject of cosmology. ... Leer más

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  • Particle Physics

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  • The First Three Minutes

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  • Heart of Darkness

    Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe

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