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By Ludwik Marian Celnikier

ISBN-10: 9812567305

ISBN-13: 9789812567307

Find a warmer place! is the insightful tale of the tortured direction that resulted in our present realizing of ways the weather within the Universe got here to be. it is a tale which begun in Greek Antiquity, with the 1st musings at the nature of subject and the void, and keeps this present day with ever extra sophisticated analyses regarding nearly each point of twentieth century physics, astronomy, cosmology and knowledge expertise. picking the resource of stellar strength, probing the earliest instants of the Universe, and learning of the way and the place every one aspect used to be made are a few of the awesome luck tales of the twentieth century, yet have obtained little cognizance past the really expert literature.

The 12 months 2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the book of 1 of the main papers on stellar nucleosynthesis, universally often called the B2FH paper. This e-book is a well timed survey of the way a brand new self-discipline — nuclear astrophysics — used to be born, and the way it has matured. virtually thoroughly non-technical, the e-book continues to be scientifically rigorous, and thereby fills an enormous gap.

Science isn't really a linear approach, because the ill-named “scientific technique” could recommend to the unwary. the writer emphasizes the meanders, the lifeless ends and the obsessive dogmas that have guided researchers throughout the twentieth century. He additionally makes it transparent that our knowing of the place the weather come from has come via discoveries in assorted, now not unavoidably similar, disciplines.

Contents:

  • The Vacuum, the Universe, and issues That move “Pop” within the Night
  • Eleven Quadrillion 600 Thousand Billion Tonnes of Coal in keeping with Second
  • Fin de Siècle, Fin du Monde
  • A secret Wrapped in an Enigma
  • The upward push of the recent Physics
  • The fowl and the Egg
  • The better of instances and the Worst of Times
  • A story of 2 Theories and One Dogma
  • Relics of a Bygone Age
  • Cosmic Ash

Readership: Students, lecturers, and most of the people attracted to the historical past of physics and astrophysics.

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