Big Bang
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Simon Singh. Big Bang
Big Bang
Simon Singh
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From the Reviews of Big Bang
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 IN THE BEGINNING
From Giant Creators to Greek Philosophers
Circles within Circles
The Revolution
Castle of the Heavens
Seeing Is Believing
The Ultimate Question
Chapter 2 THEORIES OF THE UNIVERSE
Einstein’s Thought Experiments
The Gravity Battle: Newton v. Einstein
The Ultimate Partnership: Theory and Experiment
Einstein’s Universe
Chapter 3THE GREAT DEBATE
Staring into Space
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
The Titan Astronomer
World in Motion
Hubble’s Law
Chapter 4 MAVERICKS OF THE COSMOS
From the Cosmic to the Atomic
The First Five Minutes
Divine Curves of Creation
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Chapter 5 THE PARADIGM SHIFT
The Timescale Difficulty
Dimmer, Further, Older
Cosmic Alchemy
Corporate Cosmology
The Penzias and Wilson Discovery
The Necessary Sprinkling of Wrinkling
EPILOGUE
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WHAT IS SCIENCE?
GLOSSARY
FURTHER READING
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Epilogue
INDEX
P.S
About the Author. From Somerset to Space
TOP TEN
LIFE at a Glance
About the Book. A Critical Eye
The Missing Pages
Read on. Have You Read?
Fermat’s Last Theorem
The Code Book
The Cracking Code Book
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The Man who Loved Only Numbers
The Victorian Internet
Fingerprints
Can Reindeer Fly?
Mendeleye Vs Dream
Snowball Earth
The Fifth Miracle
Strange Beauty
The Cogwheel Brain
Find Out More
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
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The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About it
SCARLETT THOMAS, Independent on Sunday
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By 1541, Rheticus’s combination of diplomatic and astronomical skills was sufficient for him to obtain Copernicus’s blessing to take the manuscript to the printing house of Johannes Petreius in Nuremberg for publication. He had planned to stay to oversee the entire printing process, but was suddenly called away to Leipzig on urgent business, and so handed responsibility for supervising publication to a clergyman by the name of Andreas Osiander. At last, in the spring of 1543, De revolutionibus orbium cælestium (‘On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres’) was finally published and several hundred copies were on their way to Copernicus.
Meanwhile, Copernicus had suffered a cerebral haemorrhage at the end of 1542, and was lying in bed, fighting to stay alive long enough to set eyes on the finished book that contained his life’s work. Copies of his treatise reached him just in time. His friend Canon Giese wrote a letter to Rheticus describing Copernicus’s plight: ‘For many days he had been deprived of his memory and mental vigour; he only saw his completed book at the last moment, on the day he died.’
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