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Discordance : the troubled history of the Hubble constant / Jim Baggott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baggott, Jim, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Expanding universe--History--Popular works.
- Expanding universe.
- Genre:
- Popular works
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- The speed of the expansion of the universe is governed by the Hubble constant. 'Discordance' tells of its troubled 100-year history, from tentative steps to measure the distances of nearby stars to orbiting telescopes peering into the far reaches of space. But recent results hint at more trouble ahead: the 'Hubble tension'. The story is not over yet.
- Contents:
- Starry messengers
- Miss Leavitt’s law
- The scale of the universe
- Hubble’s constant
- Divine curves of creation
- Parameters of the universe
- Hubble wars
- The inflationary universe
- Dark energy and the accelerating universe
- Concordance
- The hubble tension
- Discordance
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 5, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version : Baggott, J. E., Discordance
- ISBN:
- 9780191954641
- 0191954640
- OCLC:
- 1531084584
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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