How Old is the Universe?

Astronomers can't bring stars into their labs, they can't heat and cool stars to see how they behave when their temperatures change, they can't cut open galaxies to look at their cores. Astronomers can only take what the universe has to offer and make the most of it.

Finally, in the last quarter of the 20th century, scientists were able to apply their knowledge of the latest modern concepts, such as Doppler shifts, radioactivity, and nuclear fusion, to measured properties of stars, and answers to a wide range of previously unanswerable questions began to fall from the sky. This flood of evidence eventually led to an astonishing and hard-won intellectual victory on the largest scale imaginable. This was the answer to one of the most fundamental questions that has occupied humanity's mind: How old is the universe? We now know that the answer to this question is 13.7 billion years. This book tells the story of this magnificent knowledge.

"Theories about the age of the cosmos have been shaped over centuries. Weintraub's book provides the scientific explanation of this process."
"He presents it wonderfully."
-Nature-

"Weintraub has brought modern astronomy to a level that everyone can understand."
-Alastair Gunn, BBC Sky at Night Magazine-

"This brilliant detective story unravels the most intractable mystery in astronomy."
-Choice-

"Maybe you know the answer, but David Weintraub, an expert on the subject, has explained with extraordinary clarity how this answer was arrived at."
-Michael Brooks, New Scientist-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 365

Year of Print: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Alfa Publishing

Editor-in-Chief: Mustafa Küpüşoğlu
Editor: Kerem Cankoçak
Cover Design: Füsun Turcan Elmasoğlu

First Print Year: 2015

Number of Pages: 365

Language Turkish