具体描述
Wow! What a Story!, December 27, 2000
By John Bernhardt (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
This is the only book I have read where, halfway through, I said, "God, don't let me die suddenly before I finish this book!" The book is so beautifully written, especially the first half. Although I think the Big Bang Theory and Guth's sealing-wax fix to that theory are sadly erroneous, this book gives a dramatic impulse to the story of the develpment of Big Bang cosmology, from Hubble to Sandage. The story as the author presents it is exciting, like a race, and you will not want to put it down. I was concerned by another review, however, that there were inaccuracies in the book. As a layman, I could not detect these, if present. All I know is, whew! What a book! Hats off to Dennis Overbye.
作者简介
Dennis Overbye, who studied physics at MIT, is also the author of Einstein in Love. He is Deputy Science Editor of the New York Times, and his writings have appeared in TIme, the New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos was nominatated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction and a Los Angeles Times Book Award in Science.
目录信息
Prologue: Delegates to Eternity
I. THE MAN IN THE CAGE
1. His Master's Voice
2. The Candy Machine
3. The War of the World Models
4. Bonfires on the Shores of Time
5. God's Turnstile
6. The King of Black Holes
7. The Big Bang
8. The Galaxy Makers
II. FERMILAND
9. The Long March
10. The Endless Good-Bye
11. Fermiland
12. The Triumph of Beauty
13. The Reluctant Cosmologist
14. The Free Lunch
III. THE SHADOW UNIVERSE
15. The Hubble Wars
16. The Z-Machine
17. Springtime for Neutrinos
18. Zwicky's Revenge
19. The Astrologer's Curse
20. Dreamtime
IV. THE LAST GENTLEMAN
21. Sandage in Exile
22. The Day the Universe Stopped Expanding
23. The Other Side
Afterword: The Golden Age
Epilogue
Index
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