The wraparound universe /
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| Language: | English |
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Wellesley, Mass. :
A.K. Peters,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The universal mollusk
- 2. The size of space
- 3. The hall of mirrors
- 4. The four scales of geometry
- 5. Absolute or relative space?
- 6. Celestial mirages
- 7. Black hole
- 8. Foam, strings, and loops
- 9. From relativity to the big bang
- 10. What is the curvature of the universe?
- 11. Open or closed?
- 12. The knowledge of places
- 13. From the cylinder to the pretzel
- 14. Fascinating shapes
- 15. Topology and relativity
- 16. Small, strange universes
- 17. Topological mirage
- 18. Hunting for ghosts
- 19. Midnight suns
- 20. Cosmic crystallography
- 21. Circles in the sky
- 22. Inflation, the infinite, and the folds
- 23. Maya
- 24. A brief history of space
- 25. The edge paradox
- 26. The dark night paradox
- 27. Non-Euclidean geometries
- 28. Cosmos and logos
- 29. Cosmic questions
- 30. Expansion and the infinite
- 31. Galaxies in flight
- 32. The rate of expansion
- 33. The age of the universe
- 34. Astronomical distances
- 35. Cosmic mathematics
- 36. Cosmic repulsion
- 37. Dark matter
- 38. The cosmic microwave background
- 39. Is the universe flat?
- 40. Symmetry
- 41. Polyhedra
- 42. The classification of surfaces
- 43. The classification of three-dimensional spaces
- 44. Topos and cosmos
- 45. Afterword : listening to the cosmic drum.