Title: The three big bangs : comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe /
Authors: Dauber, Philip M.; Muller, R.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Big bang theory; Catastrophes (Geology); Supernovae
Abstract: Scientists identify three "Big Bangs" crucial to the creation of the universe, beginning with the dinosaur-killing collision of Earth and a comet, to a massive thermo-nuclear star explosion and finally the original Bang believed to have started it all.
Contents: The three big bangs -- Jupiter crash -- Target earth -- Controversy -- The smoking gun -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Nemesis and mas extinctions -- Spaceguard -- Impacts and evolution -- New star -- Stars are us -- Secret lives and violent deaths of stars -- The peculiar progeny of a supernova -- The supernova hunters -- Creation -- The fleeing galaxies -- Microwaves in the sky -- A snapshop of creation -- Of matter and antimatter -- Universes finite and infinite -- Cosmological candles -- Three big bangs revisited.