The three big bangs : comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe
- Title
- The three big bangs : comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe / Philip M. Dauber, Richard A. Muller.
- Published by
- Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., ©1996.
- Author
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- Description
- viii, 207 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Scientists believe that we would not be here it were not for three great cataclysms in the early history of Earth and of the universe. This is the first book to explore the deep connection between the events that shaped life on Earth: the "Big Bang" that spawned an entire universe; the explosion of a supernova, which seeded the solar system with heavy elements; and the crash of a comet or asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and cleared the way for the evolution of mammals"--Back cover.
- Series statement
- Helix books
- Uniform title
- Helix book.
- Alternative title
- Comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe
- Subject
- Contents
- The Three Big Bangs. Comet Crashes. Jupiter crash -- Target earth -- Controversy -- The smoking gun -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Nemesis and mas extinctions -- Spaceguard -- Impacts and evolution -- Exploding Stars. New star -- Stars are us -- Secret lives and violent deaths of stars -- The peculiar progeny of a supernova -- The supernova hunters -- Creation of the Universe. Creation -- The fleeing galaxies -- Microwaves in the sky -- A snapshop of creation -- Of matter and antimatter -- Universes finite and infinite -- Cosmological candles -- Three big bangs revisited.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.