The View From the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen AbramsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2007-08-07Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594482557ISBN-10:1594482551UPC:9781594482557Book Category:Science, Body, Mind & SpiritBook Subcategory:Space Science, SpiritualismBook Topic:CosmologySize:9.00 x 6.06 x 1.08 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SCJY8QJX89
In this strikingly original book, a world-renowned cosmologist and an innovative writer of the history and philosophy of science uncover an astonishing truth: Humans actually are central to the universe. What does this mean for our culture and our personal lives? The answer is revolutionary: a science-based cosmology that allows us to understand the universe as a whole and our extraordinary place...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594482557ISBN-10:1594482551UPC:9781594482557Book Category:Science, Body, Mind & SpiritBook Subcategory:Space Science, SpiritualismBook Topic:CosmologySize:9.00 x 6.06 x 1.08 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SCJY8QJX89
Joel R. Primack, emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, received his AB from Princeton in 1966 and his PhD from Stanford in 1970. He was then a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is one of the principal originators and developers of the theory of Cold Dark Matter, which has become the basis for the standard modern picture of structure...
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