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The Cosmic Web
Mysterious Architecture of the Universe
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ISBN-13:
9780691181172
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.06.2018
Seiten:
288
Autor:
J Richard Gott
Gewicht:
431 g
Format:
236x158x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
J. Richard Gott
The Cosmic Web begins with modern pioneers of extragalactic astronomy, such as Edwin Hubble and Fritz Zwicky. It goes on to describe how, during the Cold War, the American school of cosmology favored a model of the universe where galaxies resided in isolated clusters, whereas the Soviet school favored a honeycomb pattern of galaxies punctuated by giant, isolated voids. Gott tells the stories of how his own path to a solution began with a high-school science project when he was eighteen, and how he and astronomer Mario Juric measured the Sloan Great Wall of Galaxies, a filament of galaxies that, at 1.37 billion light-years in length, is one of the largest structures in the universe.