Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life

Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life

The Search for Our Cosmic Roots

Lehto, Harry; Chernin, Arthur; Lehto, Kirsi; Valtonen, Mauri; Teerikorpi, Pekka; Byrd, Gene

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

09/2020

584

Mole

Inglês

9783030179236

15 a 20 dias

1070

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Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface to the First Edition.- Part 1: The Widening World View.- When Science Was Born.- Science in Athens.- Planetary Spheres and the Size of the Universe.- Medieval Cosmology.- The Roots of the Copernican Revolution.- The True Laws of Planetary Motion Revealed.- Galileo Galilei and His Successors.- How Far Away Are the Stars?.- The Scale of the Solar System.- Part 2: Physical Laws of Nature.- Newton.- Celestial Mechanics.- Nature of Light.- Electricity and Magnetism.- Time and Space.- Curved Space and Gravity.- Atoms and Nuclei.- Strange Microworld.- Elementary Particles.- Part 3: The Universe.- Stars: Cosmic Fusion Reactors.- The Riddle of the Milky Way.- Entering the Galaxy Universe.- Large-scale Structure of the Universe.- Finite or Infinite Universe: Cosmological Models.- When it all Began: Big Bang.- The Dark Side of the Universe.- Active Galaxies: Messages Through Radio Waves.- Origin of Galaxies.- Part 4: Life in the Universe.- The Nature of Life.- The Origin of Earth and its Moon.- Emergence and Evolution of Life.- Life and our Solar System.- Extrasolar Planetary Systems and Life in other Solar Systems.- Human's Role in the Universe.- Recommended Reading.- Index.
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introduction to cosmology;development of modern physics;cosmological models;cosmic evolution;history of astronomy;cosmology explained;cosmology for students;origins of life;building blocks of the universe;the cosmic timeline;structure of the universe;Copernican Revolution history;life in extrasolar systems