During the last twenty years, dramatic improvements in methods of observing astrophysical phenomena from the ground and in space have added to our knowledge of what the universe is like now and what it was like in the past, going back to the hot big bang. In this overview of today's physical cosmolo
Principles of physical cosmology
✍ Scribed by P. J. E. Peebles
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 732
- Series
- Princeton series in physics
- Category
- Library
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✦ Subjects
Физика;Астрономия и астрофизика;Астрофизика;Космология и внегалактическая астрономия;
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