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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2015
Print publication year:
2009
Online ISBN:
9780511626500

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Cosmology, 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.

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'A thrilling page-turner … For all of us, the answers to key questions in this area of cosmology - for example, how did we get here? Where are we going? - can now be discovered in this fine book.'

John C. Mather - Joint Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics

'… includes a wealth of - mostly undocumented - details, some of which would have been lost were it not for this project.'

Source: Journal of the History of Astronomy

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