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050 0 0 _aQB991.C64
_bP44 2009
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100 1 _aPeebles, P. J. E.
_q(Phillip James Edwin),
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFinding the big bang /
_cP. James E. Peebles, Lyman A. Page, Jr., and R. Bruce Partridge.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2009.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 571 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aIntroduction -- A guide to modern cosmology -- Origins of the cosmology of the 1960s -- Recollections of the 1960s -- Cosmology and the CMBR since the 1960s -- Appendix -- Glossary.
520 _aCosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left from the big bang. The story of the discovery and exploration of the CMBR in the 1960s is recalled for the first time in this collection of 44 essays by eminent scientists who pioneered the work. Two introductory chapters put the essays in context, explaining the general ideas behind the expanding universe and fossil remnants from the early stages of the expanding universe. The last chapter describes how the confusion of ideas and measurements in the 1960s grew into the present tight network of tests that demonstrate the accuracy of the big bang theory. This book is valuable to anyone interested in how science is done, and what it has taught us about the large-scale nature of the physical universe.
650 0 _aCosmic background radiation.
650 0 _aBig bang theory.
650 0 _aCosmology.
700 1 _aPage, Lyman A.,
_eauthor.
700 1 _aPartridge, R. B.,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521519823
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511626500
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