Weird Universe Exploring the Most Bizarre Ideas in Cosmology /

As new discoveries complicate the scientific picture of the universe, the evolving theories about the nature of space and time and the origins and fate of the universe threaten to become overwhelming. Enter David Seargent. Continuing the author's series of books popularizing strange astronomy f...

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Main Author: Seargent, David A. J. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:Astronomers' Universe,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a From Water World to Inflation -- Space, Time, Relativity and Other Things -- The Shape, Size, Age and Origin of the Universe -- Of Atoms, Quanta, Strings and Branes -- Observations and Ideas From Left Field -- Appendix. 
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