Einstein’s Greatest Blunder?

The Cosmological Constant and Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe

Donald Goldsmith

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$16.00 • £12.95 • €14.50

ISBN 9780674242425

Publication Date: 10/15/1997

Short

248 pages

7 x 8 inches

16 tables, 16 halftones, 31 line illustrations

Questions of Science

World

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1. Alice’s Cosmic Restaurant
2. Gravity, Motion, Light
3. Why Stars Shine
4. Mapping the Milky Way
5. The Discovery of Universal Expansion
6. Looking for the Big Bang
7. Walls of Galaxies, Fingers of God
8. The Elusive Age of the Cosmos
9. An Uncertain Future
10. The Inflationary Theory
11. The Mystery of the Missing Mass
12. In Search of Most of the Universe
13. World Enough and Time
24. Hot Dark Matter, Cold Dark Matter, What’s the Matter
Index

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