EAN: 9783030806569

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This book tells the story of how over the past century dedicated observers and pioneering scientists achieved our current understanding of the universe. It was in antiquity that humankind first attempted to explain the universe often with the help of myths and legends. This book however focuses on the time when cosmology finally became a true science. As the reader will learn this was a slow process extending over a large part of the 20th century and involving many astronomers cosmologists and theoretical physicists. The book explains how empirical astronomical data (e.g. Leavitt Slipher and Hubble) were reconciled with Einstein's general relativity a challenge which finally led Friedmann De Sitter and Lemaître and eventually Einstein himself to a consistent understanding of the observational results. The reader will realize the extraordinary implications of these achievements and how deeply they changed our vision of the cosmos: From being small static immutable and eternal it became vast and dynamical - originating from (almost) nothing and yet now nearly 14 billion years later undergoing accelerated expansion. But as always happens as well as precious knowledge new mysteries have also been created where previously absolute certainty had reigned.

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