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Although this book has been available for some time, it is only now appearing in an English edition. This gives me the opportunity of adding a few explanations. I have not struggled to include the very latest, tentative results. I have, instead, concentrated on presenting cosmological ideas to interested non experts. They often encounter considerable difficulties when attempts are made to explain even long-established results in this field, so the aim of this book is to provide them with help. Naturally, I have also tried to include modern findings. To help with the explanation I have made use of the fictitious inhabi tants of Flatland, occasional historical digressions, and the dreams of Herr Meyer. Incidentally, I chose this name, which is very common in German speaking countries, to suggest an average citizen, just like the man next door. I should like to thank Springer-Verlag for deciding to publish this book in the language in which many of the discoveries described here were first formulated. I also thank my translator, Mr Storm Dunlop. Finally I thank Hanna Tettenborn for compiling the index.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Translator Storm Dunlop. English edition. Paperback: 262 pages. Light from the Depths of Time introduces one of the most exciting and rapidly developing fields of modern science: cosmology. It presents a picture of the universe as currently accepted by today's astrophysicists and explains the firm background of the latest cosmological speculations without recourse to mathematics. With the help of a brilliant presentation of astronomy in two-dimensional "Flatland", and of a galactic traveller, Herr Meyer, the author succeeds in making the "difficult" problems of space-time and the structure of the universe accessible to interested non-experts. From the contents: Cosmic Yardsticks - A Millionth of a Gramme of Light - Speeding Up the Milky Way - The Island Universe Debate - Are We in the Centre of the Universe? - When Did It-Begin? - The Big Bang in Flatland - A Two-Dimensional World's Astronomy - Ghosts from the Fourth Dimension - Which Curved Universe Do We Inhabit? -The Russian Balloonist and Einstein's Mistakes - The Realm of the Nebulae - Cannibalism Among Galaxies - The Story of Cygnus A - Are Quasars Really Distant? - The Problem of Superluminal Velocities - Cold Radiation from the Hot Big Bang - Where Is the Antimatter? - The Intelligent Universe. Rudolf Kippenhahn, born in 1926- in Barringen (Czechoslovakia), received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1951 and then switched to astrophysics. During his scientific career he has worked at several observatories, Princeton University and the Max-Planck-institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich, before becoming a full professor at the University of Gottingen in 1965 and Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in 1975. Professor Kippenhahn, who has held visiting professorships at the University of California and at Ohio State University, is one of Germany's leading astrophysicists and an expert on the physics of stars and stellar models. He is a highly successful popularizer of astronomy and the author of the best-selling book Hundred Billion Suns (Basic Books, 1982). Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 121731
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