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Beyond the galaxy : how humanity looked beyond our milky way and discovered the entire universe / Ethan Siegel, Lewis & Clark College, USA.

By: Siegel, Ethan, 1978- [author.].
Publisher: Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, [2016]Copyright date: ©2015Description: x, 376 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789814667166 (softcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Expanding universe | Astronomy | Astrophysics | CosmologyGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 523.1
Contents:
So far, so good: the universe at the start of the 20th century -- A relatively different story: how Einstein's relativity revolutionized space, time and the universe -- Beyond the Milky Way: a giant leap into an expanding universe -- The great leap backwards: theories on where it all came from -- An elementary story: how the stars gave life to the universe -- All the way back: it started with a bang -- What does it matter: why there's more matter than antimatter in the universe -- Before the big bang: how the entire universe began -- Dancing in the dark: dark matter and the great cosmic web -- The ultimate end: dark energy and the fate of the universe -- Past, present and future: all we know about all there is.
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Includes index.

So far, so good: the universe at the start of the 20th century -- A relatively different story: how Einstein's relativity revolutionized space, time and the universe -- Beyond the Milky Way: a giant leap into an expanding universe -- The great leap backwards: theories on where it all came from -- An elementary story: how the stars gave life to the universe -- All the way back: it started with a bang -- What does it matter: why there's more matter than antimatter in the universe -- Before the big bang: how the entire universe began -- Dancing in the dark: dark matter and the great cosmic web -- The ultimate end: dark energy and the fate of the universe -- Past, present and future: all we know about all there is.

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