Afterglow of creation
Subtitle: From the fireball to the discovery of cosmic ripples
By: Marcus Chown.
Publisher: Arrow Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 173
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Cosmic ripples.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173).
Table of contents: label: INTRODUCTION:; label: The world through microwave eyes
title: 1; label: PART ONE; label: The toughest measurement in science; label: CHAPTER 1: THE BIG BANG; label: How did we come to believe in suh a ridiculous idea?
title: 9; label: CHAPTER 2: THE RESTLESS UNIVERSE; label: How Einstein missed the message in hiw own equations
title: 17; label: CHAPTER 3: THE PRIMEVAL FIREBALL; label: Cooking up the elements in a hot Big Bang
title: 29; label: CHAPTER 4: TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE UNIVERSE; label: The search for the fireball radiation
title: 40; label: CHAPTER 5: THE GHOST SIGNAL AT 4080 MEGACYCLES; label: Problems with an icecream cone antenna
title: 52; label: CHAPTER 6: A TALE OF TWO TELEPHONE CALLS; label: How the fireball radiation came to be found
title: 62; label: CHAPTER 7: AFTERGLOW OF CREATION; label: Why did nobody find the fireball radiation earlier?
title: 75; label: CHAPTER 8: THE TOUGHEST MEASUREMENT IN SCIENCE; label: Twenty-five years of ill-fated experiments
title: 89; label: CHAPTER 9: BUMPS BUT NO WIGGLES; label: The cosmic background throws up some puzzles
title: 100; label: PART TWO; label: The Golden Age of Cosmology; label: CHAPTER 10: AN EYE ABOVE THE ATMOSPHERE; label: NASA decides to nail the program once and for all
title: 111; label: CHAPTER 11: THE NINE-MINUTE SPECTRUM; label: COBE gets a standing ovation
title: 124; label: CHAPTER 12: COSMIC RIPPLES; label: COBE finds the seeds of galaxies
title: 133; label: CHAPTER 13: THE HYPE AND THE HYSTERIA; label: How the COBE results became front-page news
title: 140; label: CHAPTER 14: THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING TO COBE; label: Galaxy formation, dark matter and inflation
title: 150; label: CHAPTER 15: THE GOLDEN AGE OF COSMOLOGY; label: Life after COBE
title: 162