The Chemical Cosmos A Guided Tour /

• Main Author: Miller, Steve (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Astronomers’ Universe,
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Planetology.; Astronomy.; Physics, general.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Physical Chemistry.

If you have ever wondered how we get from the awesome impersonality of the Big Bang universe to the point where living creatures can start to form, and evolve into beings like you, your friends and your family, wonder no more. Steve Miller provides us with a tour through the chemical evolution of th...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Purple haze: introducing our guide
• The early universe: the source of chemistry – and of our guide
• Shooting the rapids: the life, and death, of the earliest starlight
• Interlude - how our guide is hooked, lost and caught again
• Heading downstream and cooking by starlight
• Fishing for molecules
• Branching out: in the land of the giants and dwarves
• Interlude - trawling for our cosmic guide
• In the delta: exoplanets - worlds, but not as we know them
• Towards the sea of life
• Epilogue
• Annotated references and further reading to chapters
• Some useful numbers
• Index.