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The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe

By Timothy Ferris

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2002
ISBN
068801836X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
66 MB (69317536 bytes)
Edition
2nd
Pages
337\337
Time added
2017-06-23 03:59:44

Description

For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery. From Earth, the light of distant galaxies appeared to be red, meaning that those galaxies were receding from us. This led to the revolutionary realization that the universe is expanding. The Red Limit is the tale of this discovery, its ramifications, and the passionately competitive astronomers who charted the past, present, and future of the cosmos.

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