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B, Big, Big Bang, Big Bang Books...
Okay, I hope you will excuse the subject heading (those of you with
children, I hope, appreciate the reference to the B Book). I have read through my share of Big Bang questions (from both honest seekers as well as trolls, and the latter usually wind up responding to the former), and with each thread, I become more convinced that beyond using a balloon analogy or some basic facts, a newsgroup is not the best place to offer a full answer to the question. To really understand the Big Bang theory, I believe, one needs to read up on it. Since there is really not a SAA faq, I though maybe some of you (especially those of you much more knowledgeable than me -- a large group on this list indeed!) might like to share some titles of good books on the big bang. Of course most will immediately think of Hawking's book -- I have never really found it compelling, but this is just a matter of personal taste on my part, and certainly no indictment of the book. For me, I like _The Whole Shebang_ by Timothy Ferris. Any others? Erik socalsw |
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B, Big, Big Bang, Big Bang Books...
For me, I like _The Whole Shebang_ by Timothy
Ferris. Any others? Hi Erik: One I recommend to my students, and a real fave of mine, is another Ferris book, _The Red Limit_. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_ Like SCTs and MCTs? Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers! Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html |
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B, Big, Big Bang, Big Bang Books...
Rod Mollise wrote:
For me, I like _The Whole Shebang_ by Timothy Ferris. Any others? Hi Erik: One I recommend to my students, and a real fave of mine, is another Ferris book, _The Red Limit_. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_ Like SCTs and MCTs? Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers! Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html Hear Hear... "The Red Limit" is an excellent book! |
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B, Big, Big Bang, Big Bang Books...
Sam Wormley wrote in message ...
Rod Mollise wrote: For me, I like _The Whole Shebang_ by Timothy Ferris. Any others? Hi Erik: One I recommend to my students, and a real fave of mine, is another Ferris book, _The Red Limit_. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_ Like SCTs and MCTs? Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers! Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html Hear Hear... "The Red Limit" is an excellent book! I have read both "The Red Limit" and "The Whole Shebang", but to my mind Timothy Ferris's best book is "Coming of Age in the Milky Way". A very rich and enjoyable history of Cosmology. One of those books that at 495 pages; one wishes were twice as long. I just picked up a copy of Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos", and after finishing the decidedly non-cosmological "Hollywood Animal" by Joe Eszterhas, (a kick-ass take-no-prisoners bio), will jump right into what looks like a good read and further educational experience in modern cosmology. -sh |
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B, Big, Big Bang, Big Bang Books...
Sam Wormley wrote...
Hear Hear... "The Red Limit" is an excellent book! Went to Amazon to check it out... only one review? Average Customer Review: ***** Based on 1 review. Stephen Hawking's book by contrast has 54 reviews. Mark |
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B, Big, Big Bang, Big Bang Books...
Sky-High wrote:
Sam Wormley wrote in message ... Rod Mollise wrote: For me, I like _The Whole Shebang_ by Timothy Ferris. Any others? Hi Erik: One I recommend to my students, and a real fave of mine, is another Ferris book, _The Red Limit_. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_ Like SCTs and MCTs? Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers! Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html Hear Hear... "The Red Limit" is an excellent book! I have read both "The Red Limit" and "The Whole Shebang", but to my mind Timothy Ferris's best book is "Coming of Age in the Milky Way". A very rich and enjoyable history of Cosmology. One of those books that at 495 pages; one wishes were twice as long. Yes--"Coming of Age in the Milky Way" is better than "The Whole Shebang", the latter getting a bit "muddy: in the last chapters. I just picked up a copy of Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos", and after finishing the decidedly non-cosmological "Hollywood Animal" by Joe Eszterhas, (a kick-ass take-no-prisoners bio), will jump right into what looks like a good read and further educational experience in modern cosmology. -sh |
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B, Big, Big Bang, Big Bang Books...
In message , Sam Wormley
writes socalsw wrote: indictment of the book. For me, I like _The Whole Shebang_ by Timothy Ferris. Any others? Erik socalsw Brian Greene, "The Elegant Universe" (1999) Brian Greene, "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality" (2004) Seife, "Alpha & Omega", Viking (2003) Wright, "Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial" http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html Popular Cosmology Books http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmobib.html Another covering similar ground is Martin Rees, "Just Six Numbers". And then there are, as the book department once put it Unpopular Cosmology Books that do not shirk from all of the relevant equations. Joseph Silk, "The Big Bang" is pretty good on that count. Regards, -- Martin Brown |
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