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Blocks of the Universe (Paperback): Audrey E Randles Blocks of the Universe (Paperback)
Audrey E Randles
R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
HowExpert Guide to Astronomy - 101 Lessons to Learn about Astronomy, Study the Solar System, and Explore the Universe... HowExpert Guide to Astronomy - 101 Lessons to Learn about Astronomy, Study the Solar System, and Explore the Universe (Paperback)
Howexpert, Ryan Thomas Kirby
R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Science of Arun?apras?na - Cosmology to Quantum Physics (Paperback): Sitaram Ayyagari The Science of Arun̻apras̰na - Cosmology to Quantum Physics (Paperback)
Sitaram Ayyagari
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eureka - A Prose Poem (Paperback): Edgar Allan Poe Eureka - A Prose Poem (Paperback)
Edgar Allan Poe
R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Echo of the Big Bang (Paperback, Revised edition): Michael D. Lemonick Echo of the Big Bang (Paperback, Revised edition)
Michael D. Lemonick
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A tight-knit, high-powered group of scientists and engineers spent eight years building a satellite designed, in effect, to read the genome of the universe. Launched in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) reported its first results two years later with a set of brilliant observations that added focus, detail, and insight to our formerly fuzzy view of the cosmos.

For more than a year, the WMAP satellite hovered in the cold of deep space, a million miles from Earth, in an effort to determine whether the science of cosmology--the study of the origin and evolution of the universe--has been on the right track for the past two decades. What WMAP was looking for was a barely perceptible pattern of hot and cold spots in the faint whisper of microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang, the event that almost 14 billion years ago gave birth to all of space, time, matter, and energy.

The pattern encoded in those microwaves holds the answers to some of the great unanswered questions of cosmology: What is the universe made of? What is its geometry? How much of it consists of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that continue to baffle astronomers? How fast is it expanding? And did it undergo a period of inflationary hyper-expansion at the very beginning? WMAP has now given definitive answers to these mysteries.

On February 11, 2003, the team of researchers went public with the results. Just some of their extraordinary findings: The universe is 13.7 billion years old. The first stars--turned on--when the universe was only 200 million years old, five times earlier than anyone had thought. It is now certain that a mysterious dark energy dominates the universe. Michael Lemonick, who had exclusive access to the researchers as WMAP gathered its data, here tells the full story of WMAP and its surprising revelations. This book is both a personal and a scientific tale of discovery. In its pages, readers will come to know the science of cosmology and the people who, seventy-five years after we first learned that the universe is expanding, deciphered some of its deepest mysteries in the patterns of its oldest light.

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Paperback): Edward J. Ruppelt The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Paperback)
Edward J. Ruppelt
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Time Chest - Wave-Particle Duality from Time Confinement to Space Transcendence (Paperback): Mohamed Haj Yousef Time Chest - Wave-Particle Duality from Time Confinement to Space Transcendence (Paperback)
Mohamed Haj Yousef
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Hardcover): Edward J. Ruppelt The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Hardcover)
Edward J. Ruppelt
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Theory of Relativity - the Classical Review - Breakthrough in the theory of Relativity (Paperback): Gocho Vasilev Sharlanov Theory of Relativity - the Classical Review - Breakthrough in the theory of Relativity (Paperback)
Gocho Vasilev Sharlanov
R1,144 Discovery Miles 11 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Plato's Timaeus (Paperback): Plato Plato's Timaeus (Paperback)
Plato; Francis MacDonald 1874-1943 Cornford, Oskar Piest
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Plato's Timaeus (Hardcover): Plato Plato's Timaeus (Hardcover)
Plato; Francis MacDonald 1874-1943 Cornford, Oskar Piest
R833 Discovery Miles 8 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fallen Angel Model - Deeper into the Mysteries (Paperback): Ron D Morgan, Dan R Provenzano, Joe P Provenzano The Fallen Angel Model - Deeper into the Mysteries (Paperback)
Ron D Morgan, Dan R Provenzano, Joe P Provenzano
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Miracle of Man - The Fine Tuning of Nature for Human Existence (Paperback): Michael Denton The Miracle of Man - The Fine Tuning of Nature for Human Existence (Paperback)
Michael Denton
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Six Lectures on Modern Natural Philosophy (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1966 ed.): Clifford Ambrose... Six Lectures on Modern Natural Philosophy (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1966 ed.)
Clifford Ambrose Truesdell
R1,587 Discovery Miles 15 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These lectures were first given during my tenure of a Walker Ames Visiting Professorship in the Department of Astronautics and Aeronautics at the University of Washington, November 2-12, 1964. I am grateful for the interest shown there and for the tranquil hospitality of Dr. JOHN BOLLARD and Dr. ELLIS DILL, which allowed me the leisure sufficient to write the first manuscript. I thank Dean ROBERT Roy and Dr. GEORGE BENTON for the unusual honor of an invitation to deliver a series of public lectures at my own university. Apart from the footnotes on pp. 49, 50, and 85, which have been added so as to answer questions allowed by the slower pace of silence, and the obviously necessary note on p. 106, the lectures of this second series are here printed as read, February 9-25, 1965. Thus I may call these, in imitation of a famous example, " Bal timore Lectures." Acknowledgment The first lecture is based largely upon my Bingham Medal Address of 1963, part of which it reproduces verbatim. The filth lecture may be regarded as a partial summary of my course on ergodic theory at the International School of Physics, Varenna, 1960. Much of the last lecture runs parallel to my article "The Modern Spirit in Applied Mathematics," ICSU Review of World Science, Volume 6, pp. 195-205 (1964), and some paragraphs are taken from my address to the Fourth U. S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics (1961)."

Speed of Light is Increased Equally Everywhere - New Revolutionary Theory in Physics (Paperback): Mohamed Abdelwhab Husseiny Speed of Light is Increased Equally Everywhere - New Revolutionary Theory in Physics (Paperback)
Mohamed Abdelwhab Husseiny
R594 Discovery Miles 5 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gamma-ray Burst Correlations - Current status and open questions (Paperback): Maria Dainotti Gamma-ray Burst Correlations - Current status and open questions (Paperback)
Maria Dainotti
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Search for Extraterrestial Life (Paperback): Patrick Stakem The Search for Extraterrestial Life (Paperback)
Patrick Stakem
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Earth to Mars - The history of space colonization (Paperback): Jonathan Cardoso From Earth to Mars - The history of space colonization (Paperback)
Jonathan Cardoso
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Taboo Knowledge, Revised & Expanded Edition - What You Need to Know to Become Who You Want to Be (Paperback): Stephen Hawley... Taboo Knowledge, Revised & Expanded Edition - What You Need to Know to Become Who You Want to Be (Paperback)
Stephen Hawley Martin
R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Matrix Of The Universe (Paperback): Audrey Elizabeth Randles Matrix Of The Universe (Paperback)
Audrey Elizabeth Randles
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cosmos, Creation, and Physics 2d Edition - A Tale of Three Crystal Lattice Structures (Paperback): Thomas McKernon The Cosmos, Creation, and Physics 2d Edition - A Tale of Three Crystal Lattice Structures (Paperback)
Thomas McKernon
R1,202 Discovery Miles 12 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Principles of Cosmology (Hardcover): Callen Hogan Principles of Cosmology (Hardcover)
Callen Hogan
R3,205 R2,902 Discovery Miles 29 020 Save R303 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dragon Seal (Paperback): Luis Fernando Mostajo Maertens The Dragon Seal (Paperback)
Luis Fernando Mostajo Maertens
R978 Discovery Miles 9 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Observational Cosmology (Paperback): Stephen Serjeant Observational Cosmology (Paperback)
Stephen Serjeant
R1,389 Discovery Miles 13 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of observational cosmology, this advanced undergraduate textbook enables students to use quantitative physical methods to understand the Universe. The textbook covers recent developments such as precision cosmology and the concordance cosmological model, inflation, gravitational lensing, the extragalactic far-infrared and X-ray backgrounds, downsizing and baryon wiggles. It also explores the future missions and facilities likely to dominate cosmological research in the future, including radio, X-ray, submillimetre-wave and gravitational wave astronomy. Each chapter contains full-colour figures, worked examples and exercises with complete solutions. Clearly identified key facts and equations help students easily locate important information. Suggestions for further reading provide jumping-off points for students aiming to further their studies. Reflecting decades of Open University experience in undergraduate teaching, this textbook brings students to the forefront of the rapidly developing field of observational cosmology. Accompanying resources to this textbook are available at: http://www.cambridge.org/features/astrophysics.

Cosmology: Astronomy and Astrophysics (Hardcover): Vivian Miles Cosmology: Astronomy and Astrophysics (Hardcover)
Vivian Miles
R3,424 R3,091 Discovery Miles 30 910 Save R333 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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