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1549966 |
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931006s1994 nyua b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
93040693 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1563960613 (acidfree paper) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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(OCoLC)29219689 |
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(OCoLC)ocm29219689 |
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| System control number |
(NNC)1549966 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NCRA |
| Transcribing agency |
NCRA |
| Modifying agency |
NCRA |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QB981 |
| Item number |
.S553 1994 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
523.1 |
| Edition number |
20 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Silk, Joseph, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1942- |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4780 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Cosmic enigmas / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Joseph Silk. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
AIP Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1994. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 213 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Masters of modern physics ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation |
v. 10 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Cosmologists and Their Myths -- Anthropic Musings -- The Big-Bang Theory -- The Very Early Universe / Joseph I. Silk and John D. Barrow -- Formation of the Galaxies -- Slow-motion Galactic Birth -- A Deep Look at Forming Galaxies / Joseph I. Silk and August Evrard -- In Search of Young Galaxies -- The First Stars / Joseph I. Silk, Beatriz Barbuy and Roger Cayrel -- Did the Tail Wag the Cosmic Dog? -- Primordial Helium Abundance and Big-Bang Cosmology -- Historic Fluctuations -- The Origin of Galaxies / Joseph I. Silk and Martin J. Rees -- Moving As One -- Deciphering the Cosmic Code -- Our Local Pancake -- Texture and Cosmic Structure / Joseph I. Silk and Roman Juszkiewicz -- A Quasar Superstructure / Joseph I. Silk and David Weinberg -- Texture and the Microwave Background / Joseph I. Silk and James G. Bartlett -- Is Omega Equal to Unity? -- A Bubbly Universe -- The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe / Joseph I. Silk, Alexander S. Szalay and Yakov B. Zel'dovich -- The Dark Cloud. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The Dark Cloud Revisited / Joseph I. Silk and Cedric Lacey -- The Invisible Universe / Joseph I. Silk and John D. Barrow -- From Quark to Cosmos / Joseph I. Silk and John D. Barrow -- The Missing Mass - Now It's a Gravitino! -- Great Voids in the Universe -- The Intergalactic Medium -- Dark Matter Comes in from the Cold -- Cosmology Back to the Beginning -- Probing the Primeval Fireball -- An Infrared View of the Universe -- Dark Matter Detected? |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"Archeology is the science that probes the past few thousand years. Geology takes us back two or even three billion years. Beyond that is the realm of cosmology: the study of the beginnings of the Universe around us.". |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
So begins a journey deep into the origins of time, the birth of galaxies, and all the way to the farthest realm, beyond the end of it all. The tour starts at the beginning, the very early Universe - with Silk's masterful account of the Big Bang Theory, culminating in the 1965 discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. "This whisper of creation is the greatly faded relic of the primordial fireball..." |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cosmology. |
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124 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Astrophysics. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
455 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Masters of modern physics ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation |
v. 10. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4781 |
| 900 ## - EQUIVALENCE OR CROSS-REFERENCE-PERSONAL NAME [LOCAL, CANADA] |
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TOC |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |