The Expanding Universe
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1933
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 130 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Expanding UniverseCambridge University Press, 1987The Cambridge Science Classics reprint of Eddington's text, with a short foreword on how the picture has changed.
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Based on a lecture given in 1932, Eddington's book explains for a general reader the discovery that the distant galaxies are receding from us at speeds proportional to their distance, and interprets it through Einstein's general relativity and the models of Lemaître and de Sitter. He describes the measurements of Hubble and Slipher, the cosmological constant, the age and size of the universe implied, and the spectroscopic evidence, and speculates on the connection between cosmic expansion and the constants of atomic physics.
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