Einstein's Greatest Blunder?
The Cosmological Constant and Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe
The Big Bang: A Big Bust? The cosmos seems to be in crisis, and you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see it. How, for instance, can the universe be full of stars far older than itself? How could space have once expanded faster than the speed of light? How can most of the matter in the universe be “missing”? And what kind of truly weird matter could possibly account for ninety percent of the universe’s total mass?
This brief and witty book, by the award-winning science writer Donald Goldsmith, takes on these and other key questions about the origin and evolution of the cosmos. By clearly laying out what we currently know about the universe as a whole,…
$22.00
October 21, 1997Dr. Donald Goldsmith, an award-winning astronomer and writer of popular science, received his B.A. in astronomy from Harvard and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the companion volume to the PBS series The Astronomers.
Origins
Neil deGrasse Tyson
End of Astronauts
Donald Goldsmith
Exoplanets
Donald Goldsmith