About this title: This work describes Dr Hawkin's discovery that the vast bulk of the universe is in the form of primordial black holes which had their genesis within the first instant of creation. It is a key cosmological breakthrough that draws together the most significant insights of our era into a comprehensive view of the universe. Dr Hawkins started an investigation 20 years ago into 300 quasars - the brightest objects in the universe - and why they change in brightness. Calculations based on his research showed that 99 percent of the universe is made up of dark objects that cannot be directly seen - ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books, Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780738200378ISBN:0738200379
Description: Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, mild tanning to page edges, wraps have minor rubbing. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780738200378ISBN:0738200379
Description: As New. 0738200379. 240 pp Index; An astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Hawkins recounts the train of 20th-century astronomy and his own thought that led him to conclude in 1993 that the 99% of the universe's mass that seems to be missing is in fact contained in tiny primordial black holes. He also looks at the political, social, and philosophical reasons that his theory has yet to be widely accepted by his colleagues; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780738200378ISBN:0738200379
Description: Prominent British astronomer Michael Hawkins poses a bold new theory of the missing mass of the universe while revealing the destructive rivalries and feuds that plague modern cosmology, in a book that's certain to cause a storm of controversy in the... read more
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