00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862054592 Buklod 20170222163224.0 g||| | || || ta 170822s1995 nyua rb |||1 u|eng d 0195073703 (acid-free paper) (iLib)UPBAG-00023398336 DLC BAG rda eng fre QB 981 T74 1995 Trinh, Xuan Thuan author. Melodie secrete. English The secret melody and man created the universe Trinh Xuan Thuan ; translation by Storm Dunlop. New York, New York Oxford University Press, Inc. 1995. xvi, 313 pages illustrations 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (page 305) and index. 1. Past universes -- 2. From the milky way to the universe -- 3. The actors in the drama: The galaxies and the space-time couple -- 4. The big bang today -- 5. The history book of the universe -- 6. The invisible and the fate of the universe -- 7. An accidental or necessary universe? -- 8. God and the big bang -- 9. The secret melody -- Appendix A: Light and the doppler effect -- Appendix B: The elasticity of the space-time couple -- Appendix C: Black holes -- Appendix D: The uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics -- Appendix E: The cosmological parameters and the evolution of the universe. In The Secret Melody, Trinh Xuan Thuan examines our many attempts to capture the music of nature and hear the cosmic fugue. First, as prelude, he describes the many other cosmologies that preceded the modern Big Bang theory of creation - the magical universe of cavemen, the ancient Chinese idea of the universe (which Thuan compares to a gigantic bureaucracy), the mathematical universe introduced by Pythagoras, and the heliocentric universe of Copernicus - and he explores the work of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and other early scientists. He then describes in a clear, vivid, and poetic language our current understanding of the cosmos, painting a sharp picture of how modern astronomers study the universe, the equipment they use, the most prominent scientists, and the major discoveries. A mind-boggling portrait of the cosmos emerges in these pages. And, of course, any examination of the origin and nature of the universe inevitably raises philosophical and religious questions, and Thuan examines these issues as well, presenting a provocative case for the anthropic principle (which argues that the universe has been fine-tuned to an extreme precision to produce living creatures with consciousness and intelligence) and illuminating the place of God in a Big Bang cosmology. Here then is an intriguing look at modern cosmology, blending up-to-the-minute descriptions of the forefront of astronomy with thoughtful reflections on science's possible impact on philosophical and religious belief. Cosmology. Solar System. Astrophysics. Storm Dunlop translator. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QB 981 T74 1995 Book