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9780300089141

The Birth of Time; How Astronomers Measure the Age of the Universe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300089141

  • ISBN10:

    0300089147

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2001-02-08
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

How old is the universe? This engrossing book recounts how scientists have achieved the definitive answer to one of the great scientific mysteries of our time. Research astronomer John Gribbin tells the story of the struggle to determine the age of the universe and offers an insider's view of the thrilling breakthrough of the 1990s, when Hubble Space Telescope data revealed that the universe is between 13 and 16 billion years old -- older by at least one billion years than the oldest stars.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1(8)
The Age Controversy: How Wrong Is Wrong?
All Things Must Pass
9(30)
The Discovery of Cosmic Time
Age Limits
39(26)
The Oldest Things in the Universe
Across the Universe
65(30)
The First Cosmic Distance Scale
Into the Blue
95(18)
Beyond the Milky Way
Hubble's Law
113(24)
A Universe with a Beginning
Revisionist Cosmology
137(28)
Extending the Age of the Universe
New Rulers
165(33)
From Controversy to Consensus
When Time Began
198(27)
How We Measured the Age of the Universe
Afterword
222(3)
The Big Picture
Further Reading 225(2)
Index 227

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