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892944
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Harland, David M., (David Michael),1955-
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| Title & Author
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The big bang : : a view from the 21st century /\ David M. Harland.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Springer ;Chichester, UK :: in association with Praxis Pub.,, ©2003.
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| Series Statement
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Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences
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xviii, 262 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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1852337133
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: 9781852337131
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. A sense of perspective. In the centre of immensities -- pt. 2. The forces of nature. The mysterious aether -- The structure of the atom -- Nuclear forces -- Symmetries and phase changes -- Seeking a theory of everything -- pt. 3. Discovering the universe. The spiral nebulae -- Cosmology -- Probing the furthest reaches -- Supermassive black holes -- Fitting the pieces together -- The Big Bang.
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David Harland describes how our understanding of the Universe has developed from the discovery that the Universe is expanding, to the idea that all matter originated in a hot, Big Bang, then explains the many subtle improvements to the basic theory that have been necessary to understand how the very smallest particles and earliest structures (the 'microscale') in the Universe evolved to produce the Universe as it is now (the 'macroscale'). The author also describes how scientists are attempting to develop a 'Theory of Everything' that would explain how an instant after the Big Bang a single primordial force was transformed into the four forces of nature that we observe today.
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Astrophysics.
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Big bang theory.
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Black holes (Astronomy)
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Expanding universe.
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Astrophysics.
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ASTROPHYSICS.
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BIG BANG COSMOLOGY.
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Big bang theory.
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Black holes (Astronomy)
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BLACK HOLES (ASTRONOMY)
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Elementarteilchenphysik
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Expanding universe.
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Expansión del universo.
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Kosmologie
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UNIVERSE.
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Elementarteilchenphysik.
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Kosmologie.
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| Dewey Classification
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793.93
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523.18
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| LC Classification
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QB991.B54H37 2003
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