Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the UniversePrinceton University Press, 9. mar. 2021 - 488 síður For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transformed into a branch of physics. With this remarkably rapid change came a theory that would finally lend empirical support to many long-held beliefs about the origins and development of the entire universe: the theory of the big bang. In this book, Helge Kragh presents the development of scientific cosmology for the first time as a historical event, one that embroiled many famous scientists in a controversy over the very notion of an evolving universe with a beginning in time. In rich detail he examines how the big-bang theory drew inspiration from and eventually triumphed over rival views, mainly the steady-state theory and its concept of a stationary universe of infinite age. |
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CHAPTER | 22 |
CHAPTER THREE | 80 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 142 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 202 |
CHAPTER | 269 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 318 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 389 |
NOTES | 403 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 447 |
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