Mapping the Heavens
The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
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Narrated by:
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Elisabeth Rodgers
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Written by:
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Priyamvada Natarajan
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Mapping the Heavens provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century.
The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is at the forefront of the research - an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe. She not only explains for a wide audience the science behind these essential ideas but also provides an understanding of how radical scientific theories gain acceptance.
The formation and growth of black holes, dark matter halos, the accelerating expansion of the universe, the echo of the big bang, the discovery of exoplanets, and the possibility of other universes - these are some of the puzzling cosmological topics of the early 21st century. Natarajan discusses why the acceptance of new ideas about the universe and our place in it has never been linear and has always been contested even within the scientific community. And she affirms that, shifting and incomplete as science always must be, it offers the best path we have toward making sense of our wondrous, mysterious universe.
©2016 Priyamvada Natarajan (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.What listeners say about Mapping the Heavens
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- Modern family
- 15-09-22
Outstanding Assimilation of knowledge on complex and wide topic
Having read and heard many books on complex topic of astronomy, found author has captured essence of all developments and placed them in right order and perspective. Thought it history would just be data and info but she has really evolved this info to make it most interesting. Especially i liked how she has captured topic on dark matter and energy, good to understand evolution of topic over decades and get in a proper order. While familiar readers would have known all these topics, it’s really integrated well to build a map and author has added her views on most topics. Hats off to attempt such different approach.
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- Srilekha Nair
- 26-07-21
Beautiful and fascinating
what a book, a journey through the loops and hole that cosmology has gone through and how at the end science always prevails
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