Universal history

Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by goofy headed punk, Nov 2, 2002.

  1. goofy headed punk Registered Senior Member

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    Can anyone direct me to a site, research paper, book whatever that will give me a comprehensive history of the universe?
     
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  3. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    hich hikers guide to the galexy

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  5. goofy headed punk Registered Senior Member

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    Those are great books (I always have my towel an arm length away).
     
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  7. Hevene Registered Senior Member

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    "Birth of Time" is a good book, fairly easy to understand and is interesting...
     
  8. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    Didn't Hawking write a book, "The Universe in a Nutshell" or something like that? I have to read it meeself.....I hear it's pretty good stuff.
     
  9. Delvinity Registered Member

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    I would definitely look into Hawking's stuff. The man has some very good ideas.
     
  10. goofy headed punk Registered Senior Member

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    I've already looked into Hawking's stuff. (Thanks for the tip though.) What I crave is something more in-depth.
     
  11. chroot Crackpot killer Registered Senior Member

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    Hawking is crap.

    Buy any college astrophysics text. I can personally recommend Carroll and Ostlie's "An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics."

    - Warren
     
  12. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    why?
    I'm asking because I do not know much of real astrophysics and I'm getting my intro in it from Hawking
     
  13. chroot Crackpot killer Registered Senior Member

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    He's not well regarded in the physics community, does no real work anymore, and publishes lots of books on wormholes and time travel -- the stuff most physicists scoff at.

    - Warren
     
  14. Adam §Þ@ç€ MØnk€¥ Registered Senior Member

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    Seems to me Hawking is a mathematician, not a physicist. It also seems to me that all that wormhole/time-travel stuff only ever existed on blackboards, never came close to existing in reality.

    However, I do like that Hawking is trying to do a Sagan and get the general public interested in space and the future.
     
  15. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    I find it interesting - I've always liked theories about our universe- especially if they come from very intelligent people
     
  16. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    black holes were first "proven" on paper and only years later there was found proof for their existence in reality, not as a mathematical, physical probability

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  17. Adam §Þ@ç€ MØnk€¥ Registered Senior Member

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    I didn't mention black holes. However, you may notice that black holes are not yet a fully defined phenomenon. What we see are massive sources of gravity, massive jets of charged particles, hidden areas of space, and so on. Their nature is NOT known, although it is beginning to be weighed and measured.
     
  18. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    why did I meantion black holes?
    that's why^ - maybe we'll find wormholes sometime in deep future

    and that something is called a "black hole"
    which's basic properties were discovered on paper ie - hidden area of space, massive source of gravity etc
     
  19. Merlijn curious cat Registered Senior Member

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    I liked Paul Davies' "The Mind of God". It is popular science, and here is a review (hy write something somebody else already written?)

    But if you are looking for actual research papers, try a library of a university near you.
     
  20. Wizzonial Registered Member

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    The first & best place to look is in the Bible.


    The Burning Universe Of Righteousness!

    I was sitting at a desk with a computer in an unfamiliar room, Watching the cosmos
    {creation } on the screen {it looked like a small white seed surrounded by a endless darkness} When suddenly a massive spiral universe made of fire swirled into view I’ll never forget the fear of what was to come! The universe swiftly swept over our own, I turned and looked out the window As a perfectly sunny and green landscape was engulfed in one massive furnace the sky and the land became one in fire cleaning the earth of sin. As fast as it came it was gone leaving behind a new world, Painted in pastels the landscape was like that of tree’s made of clouds with the most beautiful colors The atmosphere was orange and there were new moon’s three that I sow you could almost touch them they were so close, to my left was a very large moon in the middle was a tiny moon and on my right was a medium sized moon. It was the most beautiful sight I have ever seen all so graceful in its presents.

    I hope you find your answers. Wizz!

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  21. chroot Crackpot killer Registered Senior Member

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    Sorry, but this crap does not belong on sciforums -- at least not in the Astronomy & Cosmology forum. Please take your Jesus-babble elsewhere.
    Oh, and your poetry sucks.

    - Warren
     
  22. goofy headed punk Registered Senior Member

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    I'm looking for no answers. Just a good book.
     
  23. Wizzonial Registered Member

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    Jesus-babble

    I'm sorry you feel that way.

    Fate can be a terrible thing.

    Lukewarm
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