"Roberto Battiston traces the intellectual path that has brought us to our current understanding of the universe, intertwining our most recent discoveries with the passion and the ambition of the scientists that made them possible"--
"Roberto Battiston traces the intellectual path that has brought us to our current understanding of the universe, intertwining our most recent discoveries with the passion and the ambition of the scientists that made them possible"--
Roberto Battiston; translated by Bonnie McClellan-Broussard; foreword by Marcia Bartusiak
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by Marcia Bartusiak IX Preface XIII 1 Lights Beyond the Horizon 1 2 Traveling Companions 5 3 The Laws of the Cosmos 9 4 Knowing that we Don't Know 17 5 Elephants in the Room 23 6 Fiat Lux? 29 7 Space 33 8 Ten Infernal Minutes 39 9 And There Was Not Light 49 10 The First Dawn of the Cosmos 53 11 A Special Star 57 12 The Dawn of the Solar System 61 13 The Earth and Its Climate 67 14 The Dawn of Life 71 15 Interstellar Migrations 77 16 Other Suns, Other Worlds 83 17 Where Are They? 89 18 The Dark Side of the Cosmos 93 19 The Organization of the Universe 99 20 Black Holes 103 21 Toward a New Astronomy 111 22 Toward the Infinitely Large 119 23 Toward the Infinitely Small 123 24 Big Science 129 25 The Universe as a Laboratory 135 26 A Special Particle 139 27 Antimatter 143 28 Hunting for Antimatter in Space 149 29 New Territories, New Dawns 155 30 The Dawn of Astronautics 167 31 The Dawn of the Next Star 171 32 Even More Satellites, Even Smaller 175 33 The Dawn of the Future 181 Acknowledgments 189 Index 191
Foreword by Marcia Bartusiak IX Preface XIII 1 Lights Beyond the Horizon 1 2 Traveling Companions 5 3 The Laws of the Cosmos 9 4 Knowing that we Don't Know 17 5 Elephants in the Room 23 6 Fiat Lux? 29 7 Space 33 8 Ten Infernal Minutes 39 9 And There Was Not Light 49 10 The First Dawn of the Cosmos 53 11 A Special Star 57 12 The Dawn of the Solar System 61 13 The Earth and Its Climate 67 14 The Dawn of Life 71 15 Interstellar Migrations 77 16 Other Suns, Other Worlds 83 17 Where Are They? 89 18 The Dark Side of the Cosmos 93 19 The Organization of the Universe 99 20 Black Holes 103 21 Toward a New Astronomy 111 22 Toward the Infinitely Large 119 23 Toward the Infinitely Small 123 24 Big Science 129 25 The Universe as a Laboratory 135 26 A Special Particle 139 27 Antimatter 143 28 Hunting for Antimatter in Space 149 29 New Territories, New Dawns 155 30 The Dawn of Astronautics 167 31 The Dawn of the Next Star 171 32 Even More Satellites, Even Smaller 175 33 The Dawn of the Future 181 Acknowledgments 189 Index 191
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