Cosmic Quest

Cosmic Quest

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Author: Partha Ghose
Publisher: Thema
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 93
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186017283

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Has the universe always been there? Or, was it created some time? What was there before creation? How large is the universe? How and why did the solar system form? Is the solar system going to last for ever? Is the universe static, or has it been evolving? What is going to happen to the universe as a whole in the future? How does science go about finding answers to such questions?

These are only some of the questions that the author answers in this little book.

Partha Ghose, physicist and one of the country's best known popularizers of modern science, was awarded (jointly with s K Bagchi) the NCSTC's National Award for the Best Science and Technology coverage in the Mass Media in the period 1986-1990. Widely seen and known as anchor person in the widely popular Quest and Eureka shows, Ghose is the author of Riddles in a Teacup and solar Eclipse: The Celestial diamond, classics of popular science in India, and the scholarly Testing Quantum Mechanics on new Ground (CUP 1999).

Contents

Preface

A Fiery Genesis

Harmony of the Spheres

The Lantern of the Universe

From Circles to Ellipses

The Starry Messenger

Let Newton Be

Plumbing the Depths of Space

The Runaway Universe

In Fire or in Ice?