عنوان

The prophet and the astronomer :

شابک

0393324311

شابک

9780393324310

شماره

b796398

عنوان اصلي

The prophet and the astronomer :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a scientific journey to the end of time /

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Marcelo Gleiser.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

W.W. Norton,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2003.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiv, 320 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates :

ساير جزييات

illustrations, maps ;

ابعاد

21 cm

متن يادداشت

Text in English, translated from the Portugese.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I : End is near! -- Skies are falling -- Celestial messages ; Bridge to eternity ; Dreams of perfection ; Visions of doom and redemption ; Revelations of the end -- Heaven's alarm to the world -- Importance of being vague ; Wars of redemption ; Masque of the red death ; Re-creating heaven and hell ; Apocalypse now! ; Thus spoke the science apologist -- Part II : Cosmic collisions -- Making worlds -- Stone of Aegospotami ; Evil also rises ; Cosmic boils ; Rationalization of doom ; Genesis of worlds ; Genesis of worlds, circa A.D. 2001 -- Impact! -- Geology turns catastrophe ; Dinosaur doom ; Apocalyse now? ; Searching for killers ; Fighting doom in outer space ; Prepare or else! -- Part III : Rise and fall of stars -- Fire in the sky -- Sun worshipers ; Solar chemistry ; Solar alchemy ; Red giants ; Shedding of the veil -- Cosmic maelstroms -- Unbearable heaviness of being ; New stars that are old ; Absurd idea ; Last bastions of normalcy ; Gravity redefined ; Descent into the maelstrom : prologue ; Descent into the maelstrom : a fantasy ; Descent into the maelstrom : Postscript -- Part IV : To the end of time -- Fire and ice -- Cosmos, circa 1945 ; Cosmos, circa 1980 ; Short discourse on time : part I -- Time regained -- Cosmos, circa 1998 : building blocks ; Cosmos, circa 1998 : the quartet of fundamental forces ; Quest for unification : the inner-space/outer-space connection ; Quest for unification : toward the beginning ; Cosmos, circa 1998 : cosmic challenges ; Cosmos, circa 1998 : inflating the big bang ; Cosmos, circa 1998 : the quest for new cosmic origins ; Cosmos, circa 2002 : remembrance of fluctuations past ; Cosmos, circa 2002 : the return of the ether? ; Short discourse on time : part 2 -- Epilogue : Celestial wisdom.

بدون عنوان

0

عنوان قراردادي

Fim da terra e do céu.

زبان(وقتي جزئي از عنوان قراردادي باشد)

English

موضوع مستند نشده

Cosmology.

موضوع مستند نشده

End of the universe.

موضوع مستند نشده

Religion and science.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cosmology.

موضوع مستند نشده

End of the universe.

موضوع مستند نشده

Religion and science.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gleiser, Marcelo.

تاريخ عمليات

20201207091617.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y