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The amazing unity of the universe : and its origin in the big bang

Heuvel, Edward Peter Jacobus van den, 1940- author

2016

Overview

In the first chapters the author describes how our knowledge of the position of Earth in space and time has developed, thanks to the work of many generations of astronomers and physicists. He discusses how our position in the Galaxy was discovered, and how in 1929, Hubble uncovered the fact that the Universe is expanding, leading to the picture of the Big Bang. He then explains how astronomers have found that the laws of physics that were discovered here on Earth and in the Solar System (the laws of mechanics, gravity, atomic physics, electromagnetism, etc.) are valid throughout the Universe. This is illustrated by the fact that all matter in the Universe consists of atoms of the same chemical elements that we know on Earth. This unity is all the more surprising when one realizes that in the original Big Bang theory, different parts of the Universe could never have communicated with each other.

• Publisher: Springer
• Subject: Universe. / Big bang theory. / Inflationary universe.
• ISBN: 9783319235424

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QB500.H48 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE