Cosmic Origins

25.03.2023

Englisch

9783030982164

Springer International Publishing

Nein

M. Mitchell Waldrop

152

Broschiert

Science’s Long Quest to Understand How Our Universe Began

M. Mitchell Waldrop is a freelance writer and editor. He earned a Ph.D. in elementary particle physics at the University of Wisconsin in 1975, and a Master’s in journalism at Wisconsin in 1977. From 1977 to 1980 he was a writer and West Coast bureau chief for Chemical and Engineering News. From 1980 to 1991 he was a senior writer at Science magazine, where he covered physics, space, astronomy, computer science, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, psychology, and neuroscience. He was a freelance writer from 1991 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2008; in between he worked in media affairs for the National Science Foundation from 2003 to 2006. He was the editorial page editor at Nature magazine from 2008 to 2010, and a features editor at Nature until 2016. He is the author of Man-Made Minds (Walker, 1987), a book about artificial intelligence; Complexity (Simon & Schuster, 1992), a book about the Santa Fe Institute and the new sciences of complexity; and The Dream Machine (Viking, 2001),a book about the history of computing. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Amy E. Friedlander.

Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, Cosmic Microwave Background, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Expansion of the Universe, Einstein's General Relativity, Gravity, Multiverse Theories, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, The Hubble Crisis, WIMPS, Anthropic Principle, Alan Guth

PGK - Kosmologie und das Universum PDX - Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften PH - Physik PGG - Astronomische Beobachtung: Observatorien, Ausrüstungen und Methoden PHR - Relativitätstheorie PHDV - Gravitation

235 mm

15.5 cm