Einsteins Greatest Blunder?

By Mari Vargo and Laurie Blass

The Big Bang: A Big Bust? The cosmos seems to be in crisis, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see it. How, for instance, can the universe be full of stars far older than itself? How could space have once expanded faster than the speed of light? How can most of the matter in the universe be missing? And what kind of truly weird matter could possibly account for ninety percent of the universe's total mass?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674242416
• ISBN13: 9780674242418
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Understanding the stars

This book is all about the stars, where they came from, how they got there, and how long they'll be there plus the methods scientists (astronomers) figured these things out. For anyone with a science-geared brain, this book is great. I'm currently taking physics at my high school, this book really helped me to understand the concepts and formulas in a "behind the scenes" way. The language used by the author is occasionally...