TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garfinkle,David
AU  - Garfinkle,Richard
TI  - Three steps to the universe: from the sun to black holes to the mystery of dark matter 
SN  - 9780226283494
AV  - QB521 .G29 2008eb
U1  - 520 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Black holes (Astronomy)
KW  - Dark matter (Astronomy)
KW  - Trous noirs (Astronomie)
KW  - Matière sombre (Astronomie)
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Sun
KW  - Soleil
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 265); The sun -- Look, don't touch -- What's that big bright thing made of? -- Fusion : energy hidden in plain sight -- Black holes -- Old gravity and new gravity -- Black holes in relativity -- The lives of stars -- Black hole hunting -- Gravitational waves -- Dark matter-dark energy -- Galactic scale -- What is dark matter? -- All the way out -- Dark energy, antigravity, and Einstein's fudge -- A step back to earth -- Road maps -- Science as it is written -- Glossary
N2  - If scientists can't touch the Sun, how do they know what it's made of? And if we can't see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle these questions and more in Three Steps to the Universe, a tour through some of the most complex phenomena in the cosmos and an accessible exploration of how scientists acquire knowledge about the universe through observation, indirect detection, and theory. The authors begin by inviting readers to step away from the Earth and reconsider our Sun. What
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