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" Origins : "
Tom Yulsman
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BL
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584901
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GBA309132b414120
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| Main Entry
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Yulsman, Tom
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| Title & Author
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Origins : : the quest for our cosmic roots /\ Tom Yulsman
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xvi, 384 pages :: 1 portrait ;; 22 cm
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075030765X
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: 9780750307659
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Prologue: A universe from nothing? -- 1. Spacetime: The Cosmic Stage -- 2. Cosmic Casino: The Realm of the Quantum -- 3. Hot Big Bang: Producing the Primordial Soup -- 4. Inflating the Universe: It Takes GUTs -- 5. The Galactic Cobweb: and the Multiverse -- 6. Paradigm Shift: Inflation Checks Out -- 7. Before Inflation: The Pea, the Brane, & the Search for the Ultimate Beginning -- Prologue: Fossils from Space -- 8. Interstellar Ecology: Cycles of Birth, Death and Rebirth -- 9. A Star is Born: Prelude to Planets -- 10. Solar Systems: From Rococo Clockwork to Extrasolar Planets -- 11. Pebbles to Planets: The Origin of the Solar System -- 12. To Life: The Organic Soup Kitchen -- Afterword: Cosmology and Environmentalism
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Cosmology
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523.1
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QB981.Y84 2003
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