The Cosmic Microwave Background How It Changed Our Understanding of
Rhodri Evans tells the story of what we know about the universe, from Jacobus Kapteyn’s Island universe at the turn of the 20th Century, and the discovery by Hubble that the nebulae were external to our own galaxy, through Gamow’s early work on the cosmic
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The Cosmic Microwave Background How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe
Astronomers’ Universe
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Rhodri Evans
The Cosmic Microwave Background How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe
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Rhodri Evans School of Physics & Astronomy Cardiff University Cardiff United Kingdom
ISSN 1614-659X ISSN 2197-6651 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-09927-9 ISBN 978-3-319-09928-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-09928-6 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: : 2014957530 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Cover illustration: The Orion Nebula, the closest of over 100 known huge gas and dust clouds located in our Milky Way Galaxy, appears to be a very busy “newborn nursery” where many new solar systems are being built. This photograph courtesy of NASA/ESA/Luca Ricci shows a collection of six such new planetary systems, some of which may in the far distant future, provide a home for life. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA), the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team and L. Ricci (ESO) Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
For my parents Colin and Audrie; my sister Jill, my
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