Intelligible Universe, The: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years (2nd Edition) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789812794109)

This interesting book reviews WMAP's main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the "age" of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow. In the final chapter on "Cosmic Numbers", it is shown that, as a result of the coincidence at decoupling time between atom formation and matter/radiation equality, a reasonable cosmic justification for the mass ratio of protons and electrons is obtained. /remove

Author: Julio A. Gonzalo
ISBN-10: 9812794107
ISBN-13: 9789812794109
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2008
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2008 pg. 43