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The five ages of the universe : inside the physics of eternity / by Adams, Fred,1961-(CARDINAL)320261; Laughlin, Greg.(CARDINAL)320260;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.Two astrophysicists offer a chronicle of the universe's history, describing its beginning with the Big Bang and looking into the incredibly distant future, with vivid portraits of the sun's death, the evaporation of black holes, and other astronomical end-time events.
Subjects: Cosmology.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The universe at midnight : observations illuminating the cosmos / by Croswell, Ken.(CARDINAL)385456;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-325) and index.
Subjects: Cosmology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The first three minutes [sound recording] : a modern view of the origin of the universe / by Weinberg, Steven,1933-author.; Todd, Raymond,narrator.;
Read by Raymond Todd.An authoritative presentation of the widely accepted standard model of the universe's beginnings, detailing what is now believed, on the basis of recent discoveries to have happened during the universe's first three minutes.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Cosmology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Before the beginning : our universe and others / by Rees, Martin J.,1942-(CARDINAL)332270;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From atoms to life : galactic ecology -- The cosmic scene : expanding horizons -- Pregalactic history : the clinching evidence -- The gravitational depths -- Black holes : gateways to new physics -- Image and substance : glalaxies and dark matter -- From primordial ripples to cosmic structures -- Omega and Lambda -- Back to :the beginning" -- Inflation and the multiverse -- Exotic relics and missing links -- Toward infinity : the far future -- Time in other universes -- "Coincidences" and the ecology of universes -- Anthropic reasoning - principled and unprincipled.The author, Britain's Astronomer Royal, posits that our universe "is just one element in a cosmic archipelago where impassable barriers prohibit communication between the islands...[but where] our universe contains creatures able to observe it."--Jacket.
Subjects: Cosmology.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Why does the world exist? : an existential detective story / by Holt, Jim,1954-(CARDINAL)354467;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index.A quick proof that there must be something rather than nothing, for modern people who lead busy lives -- Confronting the mystery -- Interlude : Could our world have been created by a hacker? -- Philosophical tour d'horizon -- Interlude : The arithmetic of nothingness -- A brief history of nothing -- The Great Rejectionist -- Finite or infinite? -- Interlude : Night thoughts at the Café de Flore -- The inductive theist of North Oxford -- Interlude : The supreme brute fact -- The Magus of the Multiverse -- Interlude : The end of explanation -- The ultimate free lunch? -- Interlude : Nausea -- Waiting for the final theory -- Interlude : A word on many worlds -- Platonic reflections -- Interlude : It from bit -- "The ethical requiredness of there being something" -- Interlude : An Hegelian in Paris -- The last word from All Souls -- Epistolary interlude : The proof -- The world as a bit of light verse -- The self : do I really exist? -- Return to nothingness -- Over the Seine.In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times.--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Cosmology.;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 16
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How to build a universe : from the big bang to the end of the universe / by Gilliland, Ben,author.(CARDINAL)600945;
How we dicovered the Big Bang -- A universe is born -- How we discovered the atom -- The force is strong with this universe -- A star is born -- The life and death of a star -- Meet the galaxy gardeners -- Cooking up a solar system -- The end...or is it?"Using a mixture of eye-catching graphics, humor, and good old science, Ben Gilliland, creator of the Metro's popular MetroCosm column, shows us how the cosmos came to be, unraveling the complex concepts surrounding the birth and development of the galaxies. Each chapter builds the universe piece by piece - from the making of matter, to the life and death of a star, to the creation of the solar system - while highlighting such discoveries as the cosmic microwave background, and a whole lot of other universe-building necessities. With out-of-this world images and fact boxes interspersed throughout, you'll be mastering the universe in no time at all."--Jacket.
Subjects: Cosmology.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The universe [videorecording] : an amazing journey from the sun to the most distant galaxies / by Enos, Timothy.(CARDINAL)326935; Lehrman, Paul D.(CARDINAL)326936; Tully, Tim.; Universe Productions.;
Telescopes in space -- The sun -- The planets -- The Milky Way: Star clusters ; Stars -- Nebulae: Reflection nebulae ; Emission nebulae ; Supernova remnants ; Planetary nebulae -- Galaxies: The local group ; Near galaxies ; Distant galaxies.Original music by Paul D. Lehrman and Tim Tully; art direction by Kathy Marty.Narrated by Timothy Enos.A video tour of over 200 astronomical objects, featuring images from Hubble, SOHO, TRACE and NASA's other orbiting space telescopes.DVD. 5.1 surround sound. Minimum system requirements: DVD-Video player, or DVD-ROM-equipped, Pentium II computer; Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000; 25 MB free hard drive space; MPEG-2 decoder with Dolby Digital surround sound. DVD-equipped Macintosh will play title only using Apple DVD-Video player. Also compatible with xbox and Playstation2.
Subjects: Cosmology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A brief history of time / by Hawking, Stephen,1942-2018.(CARDINAL)157969;
"In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected." "Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these observations, as well as his own recent research, Professor Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, written an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel, and updated the chapters throughout."--Jacket.1290LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Cosmology.;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 25
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A brief history of time / by Hawking, Stephen,1942-2018.(CARDINAL)157969;
Includes index.An introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos, from the big bang to black holes, by an author widely reguarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein.1290LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Cosmology.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Before the beginning : our universe and others / by Rees, Martin J.,1942-(CARDINAL)332270;
From atoms to life: galactic ecology -- The cosmic scene: expanding horizons -- Pregalactic history: the clinching evidence -- The gravitational depths -- Black holes: gateways to new physics -- Image and substance: galaxies and dark matter -- From primordial ripples to cosmic structures -- Omega and lambda -- Back to "The beginning" -- Inflation and the multiverse -- Exotic relics and missing links -- Toward infinity: the far future -- Time in other universes -- "Coincidences" and the ecology of universes -- Anthropic reasoning: principled and unprincipled.
Subjects: Fiction.; Cosmology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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