Title: Time, space, stars & man : the story of the big bang /
Authors: Woolfson, Michael M.
Publisher: Imperial College Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Big bang theory.
Contents: Musing -- Christian Doppler and his effect -- Measuring distances in the universe -- Edwin Hubble's expanding universe -- A weird and wonderful universe -- The nature of matter -- The Big Bang hypothesis -- How matter can clump together -- The universe develops structure -- The first stars are born, live and die -- The formation of globular clusters and galaxies -- Making the sun - and similar stars -- A crowded environment -- Understanding the nature of the solar system -- Introducing the planets -- Satellites galore -- "Vermin of the sky" and other small bodies -- Planets galore -- Making planets -- Shrinking orbits and the survival of planetary systems -- Now satellites form -- What can be learnt from meteorites? -- A little-Big Bang theory and the terrestrial planets -- The moon - its structure and history -- The very small planets - Mars and Mercury -- Bits and pieces in the solar system -- The dwarf planets and Triton -- The earth settles down - more-or-less -- What is life? -- The alphabets of life -- Life begins with Earth -- The survival of the fittest -- The restless Earth -- Oxygen, ozone and the evolution of life -- Man and the earth -- Musing again.