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Echo of the big bang

Author: Michael D Lemonick
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Launched in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) reported its results with a set of observations that added focus, detail, and insight to our formerly fuzzy view of the cosmos. This  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael D Lemonick
ISBN: 0691102783 9780691102788
OCLC Number: 316495339
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 232 p. : ill. ; 23cm.
Contents: CHAPTER 1 Is Something Amiss in the Universe? 1 CHAPTER 2 The Birth of Cosmology 15 CHAPTER 3 A Whisper of Microwaves 37 CHAPTER 4 Bad Blood 63 CHAPTER 5 Now What? 73 CHAPTER 6 Forming a Team 83 CHAPTER 7 How to Design a Satellite 100 CHAPTER 8 The Build 128 CHAPTER 9 Horse Race 142 CHAPTER 10 Launch 155 CHAPTER 11 Deepening Mystery 168 CHAPTER 12 The Answer 190 Glossary 203 Acknowledgments 207 Index 211
Responsibility: Michael D. Lemonick.

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The exciting story of the quest to detect, record, and understand [cosmic background] relic radiation from the creation of the cosmos. In the book, Time magazine's senior science writer, Michael D. Read more...

 
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