Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant - Hardcover
by Jim Baggott
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192864062ISBN-10:192864068UPC:9780192864062Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Space ScienceBook Topic:Astronomy, CosmologySize:9.42 x 6.41 x 1.24 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCKPRTQ11W
Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant
The troubled history of the Hubble constant told in an authoritative, comprehensible, and entertaining manner In 1927 Georges Lemaître argued that our universe is expanding, a conclusion rendered more startling by the astronomical data that backed it up, presented two years later by Edwin Hubble. The speed of this expansion is governed by Hubble's constant, and Discordance tells its troubled...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192864062ISBN-10:192864068UPC:9780192864062Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Space ScienceBook Topic:Astronomy, CosmologySize:9.42 x 6.41 x 1.24 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCKPRTQ11W
Jim Baggott, Freelance science writer Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer. Trained as a scientist in the Universities of Oxford and Stanford, and a former lecturer at the University of Reading, he has written popular books on science, philosophy, and history. His books include Higgs (2012), Mass (2017), for which he won the 2020 Premio Cosmos prize, Quantum Reality (2020), Quantum...
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