TY - BOOK ID - 223649 TI - Finding the big bang AU - Peebles, P. J. E. AU - Page, Lyman A. AU - Partridge, R. B. PY - 2009 SN - 9780521519823 0521519829 9780511626500 9780511719400 051171940X 0511626509 9780511515279 0511515278 1107192048 1282539280 9786612539282 0511718950 0511718497 051151655X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cosmology KW - Galaxies KW - Cosmic background radiation KW - Big bang theory KW - Big bang KW - Cosmologie KW - Cosmic background radiation. KW - Big bang theory. KW - Cosmology. KW - Astronomy KW - Deism KW - Metaphysics KW - Big bang cosmology KW - Superdense theory KW - Cosmogony KW - Expanding universe KW - Background radiation, Cosmic KW - Cosmic microwave background KW - Cosmic microwave radiation KW - Microwave background KW - Extraterrestrial radiation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:223649 AB - Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left from the big bang. The story of the discovery and exploration of the CMBR in the 1960s is recalled for the first time in this collection of 44 essays by eminent scientists who pioneered the work. Two introductory chapters put the essays in context, explaining the general ideas behind the expanding universe and fossil remnants from the early stages of the expanding universe. The last chapter describes how the confusion of ideas and measurements in the 1960s grew into the present tight network of tests that demonstrate the accuracy of the big bang theory. This book is valuable to anyone interested in how science is done, and what it has taught us about the large-scale nature of the physical universe. ER -