Sizing Up the Universe: A New View of the Cosmos Richard Gott III
The authors offer visual comparisons with astonishing precision and maximum reader-friendliness, conveying clear and understandable explanations of unimaginable vastness.
Sizing Up the Universe
Sizing Up the Universe
Zusammenfassung
An ingenious new way to envision the outsize proportions of space
Sizing Up the Universe Zusammenfassung
Über Richard Gott III
Richard Gott is Professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University. A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate in Physics from Harvard in 1969, he received his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Princeton in 1973. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and at Cambridge University before returning to join the Princeton faculty. He is the author of the Time Travel in Einstein's Universe (Phoenix). He has written on time travel and other subjects for Time, Scientific American, New Scientist and Nature. He is one of the world's experts on parallel universes, string theories and cosmic origin. Robert Vanderbei is Professor and Chair of the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. A summa cum laude graduate in Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1976, he received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 1981. As an amateur astronomer, Vanderbei has taken, from his backyard, astonishing and very highquality photographs of astronomical objects: these photos rival the best of those taken from some of our greatest observatories.
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GOR007247122
9781426206511
1426206518
Sizing Up the Universe: A New View of the Cosmos Richard Gott III
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National Geographic Society
20101102
240
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