B00B7H7M2E EBOK (50 page)

charge-coupled devices (CCDs) 212–13, 240

reflecting telescopes 133, 134, 151, 155

refracting telescopes 134, 155

see also
Catholic Church

age of 179, 180, 218, 263–4, 266

asymmetries and irregularities 203–5, 274

balloon analogy 187, 202, 288–9

dimensions xi, 106, 114–15, 152–4, 169, 177–8, 179, 180

Earth-centred model 22–3, 26–7, 28, 32, 33, 89

expansion or contraction 182–4, 185–7, 188–9, 191, 201, 252, 273, 279, 280, 283–4, 287

isotropy and homogeneity 233–4, 247, 249

mass density 251–3, 255, 258, 259, 260, 274, 280, 281

no-boundary model 284, 285, 286–7

origins
see
Big Bang theory; inflation theory; Steady State theory

relative scale 248

Sun-centred model 23–6, 30, 46, 47–8, 54, 57, 61, 89

supercomputer simulations 273–6

surveys and mapping 228–50

About the Author

Kitty Ferguson
is the author of
Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed our Understanding of the Heavens
,
Prisons of Light: Black Holes
and the definitive
Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work
. Her interest in mathematics, physics and cosmology began as a child growing up in Texas in a family that loved mathematics, science, and music. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York and was for many years a successful professional musician, conducting and performing oratorio, early music and chamber music. In 1986 she moved to England where her husband was a Visiting Fellow and later Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. During this and many subsequent periods of residence at Cambridge, Kitty Ferguson audited graduated lectures and seminars in the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics and got to know some of the legendary figures in those fields, including Stephen Hawking. In 1987 she retired from music to devote herself full time to writing about science.

Also by Kitty Ferguson

Black Holes in Spacetime

Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything

The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God

Prisons of Light: Black Holes

Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens

Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe (The Music of Pythagoras)

Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work/An Unfettered Mind

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