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Автор Нил Деграсс Тайсон
Also by Neil deGrasse Tyson
(with Steven Soter, eds. )
Also by Donald Goldsmith
(with Laura Danly and Leonard David)
Fourteen Billion Years of
Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson
and
Donald Goldsmith
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
NEW YORK • LONDON
To all those who look up,
And to all those who do not yet know
why they should
Contents
Acknowledgments
PREFACE A Meditation on the Origins of Science and the Science of Origins
OVERTURE The Greatest Story Ever Told
Part I: The Origin of the Universe
CHAPTER 1 In the Beginning
CHAPTER 2 Antimatter Matters
CHAPTER 3 Let There Be Light
CHAPTER 4 Let There Be Dark
CHAPTER 5 Let There Be More Dark
CHAPTER 6 One Universe or Many?
Part II: The Origin of Galaxies and Cosmic Structure
CHAPTER 7 Discovering Galaxies
CHAPTER 8 The Origin of Structure
Part III: The Origin of Stars
CHAPTER 9 Dust to Dust
CHAPTER 10 The Elemental Zoo
Part IV: The Origin of Planets
CHAPTER 11 When Worlds Were Young
CHAPTER 12 Between the Planets
CHAPTER 13 Worlds Unnumbered: Planets Beyond the Solar System
Part V: The Origin of Life
CHAPTER 14 Life in the Universe
CHAPTER 15 The Origin of Life on Earth
CHAPTER 16 Searching for Life in the Solar System
CHAPTER 17 Searching for Life in the Milky Way Galaxy
CODA The Search for Ourselves in the Cosmos
Glossary of Selected Terms
Further Reading
Image Credits
Index
Photo Insert
Acknowledgments
For reading and rereading the manuscript, ensuring that we mean what we say and say what we mean, we are indebted to Robert Lupton of Princeton University.
His tandem expertise in astrophysics and the English language allowed the book to reach several notches higher than we had otherwise imagined for it. We are also grateful to Sean Carroll at Chicago’s Fermi Institute, Tobias Owen of the University of Hawaii, Steven Soter of the American Museum of Natural History, Larry Squire of UC San Diego, Michael Strauss of Princeton University, and PBS NOVA producer Tom Levenson for key suggestions that improved several parts of the book.For expressing confidence in the project from the beginning, we thank Betsy Lerner of the Gernert Agency, who saw our manuscript not only as a book but also as an expression of deep interest in the cosmos, deserving the broadest possible audience with whom to share the love.
