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Paul Halpern (Author)
Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos
Halpern and Wesson, both physics professors and authors, give us a history of 20th century cosmology, and how its development was influenced by the concepts of relativity, new technology and the mathematical explanations they engendered. In a brain-twisting tour of time and space, each chapter explores an aspect of contemporary physics and cosmology, including infinity, the accelerating universe, dark matter and the slippery notion of reality. They describe competing models for the geometry of space, including string theory, additional dimensions, and "branes," evaluating each model in terms of observational and experimental data. So far, all these models fail to reproduce the entirety of the known universe; certain aspects of the universe's structure cannot be reproduced by the complex mathematics of cosmologists, and the dense text makes it easy to see why-though not quite so easy to see how. The discussion of Einstein's cosmological constant and the subsequent discovery of universal cosmic background radiation is intriguing, as are chapters describing the mysterious nature of matter and its invisible counterpart, dark matter. General readers may find other passages difficult, like those describing newer efforts to reinvigorate the "steady-state" cosmology of Hoyle and his colleagues. Without a pre-existing knowledge of non-Euclidean geometry, many readers will be frustrated. But for readers with at least one college-level class in physics, this will prove an interesting, illuminating challenge.
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