Three steps to the universe [electronic resource] : from the sun to black holes to the mystery of dark matter / David Garfinkle & Richard Garfinkle.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: vii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780226283463 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226283461 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 520 22
- QB521 .G29 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265).
The sun -- Look, don't touch -- What's that big bright thing made of? -- Fusion : energy hidden in plain sight -- Black holes -- Old gravity and new gravity -- Black holes in relativity -- The lives of stars -- Black hole hunting -- Gravitational waves -- Dark matter-dark energy -- Galactic scale -- What is dark matter? -- All the way out -- Dark energy, antigravity, and Einstein's fudge -- A step back to earth -- Road maps -- Science as it is written -- Glossary.
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