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cosmologyBranch of astronomy that deals with the structure and evolution of the universe as an ordered whole. Cosmologists construct ‘model universes’ mathematically and compare their large-scale properties with those of the observed universe. Modern cosmology began in the 1920s with the discovery that the universe is expanding, which suggested that it began in an explosion, the Big Bang. An alternative – now discarded – view, the steady-state theory, claimed that the universe has no origin, but is expanding because new matter is being continually created.
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Halpern and Wesson, both professors of physics, detail the research into the mystery matter in its cold and hot forms as well as into the other big questions that challenge cosmologists today. The Big Bang: A Visionary Novel of Cosmic Proportions by English professor James Lake is the mind-expanding story of a novice cosmologist who searches for the true nature of light, and therefore the source of all life. In a past workshop, cosmologist Brian Swimme had presented videos on "The Earth's Imagination"--to place "the human psyche within the 15 billion-year cosmic process in order to highlight the directions in which human consciousness is evolving today and into the future. |
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