Introducing the Universe ebook

by Felix Pirani,Christine Roche

Felix Pirani Christine Roche Astronomy and Space Science English

Introducing the Universe Paperback – November 19, 2002. by Felix Pirani (Author), Christine Roche (Contributor). I am a huge fan of the Introducing-series. These books (of which I own several titles) explain very thoroughly in only a small number of pages, difficult topics.

Introducing the Universe Paperback – November 19, 2002. And they read pleasantly.

Felix Pirani "Introducing the Universe" Totem Books 1990. Felix Pirani and Christine Roche "L'Astronomie sans aspirine" Flammarion 2002. Richard Fifield, New Scientist 27 August 1981, pp 533.

Christine Roche is French Canadian illustrator, cartoonist, and film-maker who lives and works in London. Her work has appeared in several books, magazines, and national newspapers.

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The Universe for Beginners, republished as Introducing the Universe, is a 1993 graphic study guide to cosmology written by Felix Pirani and illustrated by Christine Roche.

The universe is expanding, but how long has the expansion been going on? Will it expand forever, or collapse in a Big Crunch, a Big Bang in reverse?

90% or more of the matter in the universe is unseen.

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Felix Pirani, Christine Roche. Compact INTRODUCING guide to the science behind the world we live in. The universe is expanding, but how long has the expansion been going on?

Felix Pirani, Christine Roche. The universe is expanding, but how long has the expansion been going on? Will it expand forever, or collapse in a Big Crunch, a Big Bang in reverse? From Aristotle to Newton, Einstein to Quantum Mechanics, INTRODUCING THE UNIVERSE - A GRAPHIC GUIDE recounts the revolutions in physics and astronomy that underlie the present-day picture of the universe.

Christine Roche is French Canadian illustrator, cartoonist, and film-maker . Christine Roche has illustrated many books, both for children and adults, and worked for a number of leading publishers. She has produced animated films for Channel 4 and UNICEF and lectured in various colleges including the London College of Communication , the Royal College of Art and the National Institute of Design (NID) in India.

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From Aristotle to Newton, Einstein and quantum mechanics, Introducing the Universe recounts the revolutions in physics and astronomy that underlie the present-day scientific picture of the Universe. It describes the scale of things, from atoms to galactic superclusters, and sketches the cosmological theories, based on Einstein's general relativity, used to describe the Universe's expansion. The book also discusses the significance of the cosmic background satellite observations, and explains why current theories have nothing reliable to say about whether the Universe had a 'beginning'.

Qus

I am a huge fan of the Introducing-series. These books (of which I own several titles) explain very thoroughly in only a small number of pages, difficult topics. And they read pleasantly. This one though, explains nothing at all. Do not buy it! It starts off with denouncing the existence of God as not "scientific", and "proofs" this statement not by scientific arguments, but by philosphical arguments from mystery religions. A fallacy. Instead of giving an overview of the universe from big to small or vice versa, and the different cosmological world views there are, it in-depth tries to dwell on quantum mechanics, history of astronomy and the like. And a bad job is done on those topics, I can tell you. Forget about this book: it's trash. Buy Introducing Quantum Mechanics instead. That last book is truly excellent.

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ℓo√ﻉ

Here the Cosmology lesson is nothing short of amazingly rendered and illustrated. This is a great unification for books on physics. You will keep referencing its history and explanations for some time to come.

Core material:

Cosmology

Looking back in time

Atomic structures

Universe structure

Exponent notations

Aristotle

Plato

Christianity

Tycho's supernovas

Kepler's laws

1. Each planet moves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus

2. The radius vector from the sun to the planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times

3. Kepler's ratio

Galileo and the Church

Shapley Milky way sketch

Hubble Spiral nebulae and Hubble's constant

Big Bang

Penzias and Wilson in 1965 discover cosmic background radiation as radio noise

General relativity

Quantum Mechanics

Atomic numbers

Atomic nucleus (protons [+1 charge] and neutrons [0 charge] [made of quarks]. Electrons [-1].

The 4 forces

The theory of electromagnetism

Forms of energy Kinetic energy, Potential energy, Electromagnetic radiation, Photon, and Thermal energy.

Waves and Particles

Light waves

Light spectrum

Redshift - blueshift

Special Relativity

Gravitation

Mass and Weight

All bodies equally fast

General relativity

Black holes

Dying Suns

Neutrons

Quasars

Quantum theory

Quantum mechanics

Planck's density (when universe is compacted) is 10(93) times the density of water and Planck's time 10(-43) seconds.

Friedman Model

The Standard Cosmological model

A big crunch

Open universe

The Horizon Problem

Density

Inflation

Dark matter

GUT

Anthropics

Hawking

Nahn

This book tries to outline in broad general terms our current understanding of the Universe. It tells us at the outset that the stars and galaxies we are seening now , we are seeing as they appeared millions of years ago. It gives a small history tour and tries to show how our understanding of the Universe has been transformed. Where once we had a picture of the universe in which we on the Earth were at the center, now we have one in which even our Galaxy is not at the center. The book also describes the basic elements of the Universe and the processes which obtain in the formation of Stars and Galaxies. It makes it clear that Cosmology is a developing Science in which we still do not have definite answers to many of the most important questions.
The clear purpose of the work is to whet the reader's interest in learning more about the Universe.