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How it began : a time-traveler's guide to the universe / Chris Impey.

How it began : a time-traveler's guide to the universe / Chris Impey.
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ISBN 9780393080025 (hardcover)
Name Impey, Chris
Title How it began : a time-traveler's guide to the universe / Chris Impey.
Edition 1st ed.
Published New York : W.W. Norton, 2012
Description xiii, 434 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Separated at birth -- Planetary zoo -- Distant worlds -- Stellar nursery -- The edge of darkness -- Island universe -- Cosmic architecture -- Nuclear power -- The growth of galaxies -- Light and life -- Big bang -- White heat -- Something rather than nothing -- Unification and inflation -- Multiverse.
Summary In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly strange aftermath of the Big Bang. What if we could look into space and see not only our place in the universe but also how we came to be here? As it happens, we can. Because it takes time for light to travel, we see more and more distant regions of the universe as they were in the successively greater past. Impey uses this concept - "look-back time" - to take us on an intergalactic tour that is simultaneously out in space and back in time. Performing a type of cosmic archaeology, Impey brilliantly describes the astronomical clues that scientists have used to solve fascinating mysteries about the origins and development of our universe.
Subjects Cosmology
Space and time
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