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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Any author who points out that "... the answers given by religious and pseudo-scientific texts invariably turn out to be wrong. Creationism and astrology are nonsense. The Book of Genesis offers no insight into the evolution of the universe or of life." in his preface is my kind of guy! A good concise overview of the state of cosmology. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
How old is the universe? How far away are the galaxies and how fast are they travelling away from us? What is dark matter and why do astronomers think it pervades the universe? How heavy is the vacuum? How do galaxies form?Michael Rowan-Robinson answers these and many more questions in a highly original and intriguing way. He encapsulates our current knowledge (both what we do and don't know) of the origin and the nature of the universe into nine numbers. These cosmic numbers appear to be independent characteristics of our universe and include its age, the Hubble constant (a measure of its rat No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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