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The birth of time : how astronomers measured the age of the universe / John Gribbin
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1999Description: vi, 237 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0300083467
- ARCH YNDC 523.1 G846B
- QB981Â .G756 1999
Contents:
Introduction: The age controversy: How wrong is wrong? -- All things must pass: The discovery of cosmic time -- Age limits: The oldest things in the universe -- Across the universe: The first cosmic distance scale -- Into the blue: Beyond the Milky Way -- Hubble's Law: A universe with a beginning -- Revisionist cosmology: Extending the age of the universe -- New rulers: From controversy to consensus -- When time began: How we measures the age of the universe -- Afterword: The big picture
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| ARCH YNDC 523.1 D255G The Goldilocks enigma : why is the universe just right for life? / | ARCH YNDC 523.1 E42C Cosmos and history; the myth of the eternal return. | ARCH YNDC 523.1 E47F The far-future universe : eschatology from a cosmic perspective / | ARCH YNDC 523.1 G846B The birth of time : how astronomers measured the age of the universe / | ARCH YNDC 523.1 O999P The Poincaré conjecture : in search of the shape of the universe / | ARCH YNDC 523.1 R328O Our cosmic habitat / | ARCH YNDC 523.1 W592P Process and reality ; an essay in cosmology. |
Previously published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226) and index
Introduction: The age controversy: How wrong is wrong? -- All things must pass: The discovery of cosmic time -- Age limits: The oldest things in the universe -- Across the universe: The first cosmic distance scale -- Into the blue: Beyond the Milky Way -- Hubble's Law: A universe with a beginning -- Revisionist cosmology: Extending the age of the universe -- New rulers: From controversy to consensus -- When time began: How we measures the age of the universe -- Afterword: The big picture
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