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The Cosmic Microwave Background - How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
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The Cosmic Microwave Background - How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Series: Astronomers' Universe
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Rhodri Evans tells the story of what we know about the universe,
from Jacobus Kapteyn's Island universe at the turn of the 20th
Century, and the discovery by Hubble that the nebulae were external
to our own galaxy, through Gamow's early work on the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) and its subsequent discovery by Penzias
and Wilson, to modern day satellite-lead CMB research. Research
results from the ground-based experiments DASI, BOOMERANG, and
satellite missions COBE, WMAP and Planck are explained and
interpreted to show how our current picture of the universe was
arrived at, and the author looks at the future of CMB research and
what we still need to learn. This account is enlivened by Dr Rhodri
Evans' personal connections to the characters and places in the
story.
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