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THE TRUE STORY OF MODERN COSMOLOGY - EMILIO ELI...

This book tells the story of how  over the past century  dedicated observers and pioneering
scientists achieved our current understanding of the universe. It was in antiquity that
humankind first attempted to explain the universe often with the help of myths and legends.
This book  however  focuses on the time when cosmology finally became a true science. As the
reader will learn  this was a slow process  extending over a large part of the 20th century and
involving many astronomers  cosmologists and theoretical physicists. The book explains how
empirical astronomical data (e.g.  Leavitt  Slipher and Hubble) were reconciled with Einstein's
general relativity  a challenge which finally led Friedmann  De Sitter and Lemaître  and
eventually Einstein himself  to a consistent understanding of the observational results. The
reader will realize the extraordinary implications of these achievements and how deeply they
changed our vision of the cosmos: From being small  static  immutable and eternal  it became
vast and dynamical - originating from (almost) nothing  and yet now  nearly 14 billion years
later  undergoing accelerated expansion. But  as always happens  as well as precious knowledge
new mysteries have also been created where previously absolute certainty had reigned.

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