Marcia Bartusiak - The Day We Found the Universe

General Information =================== Title............: The Day We Found The Universe Author...........: Marcia Bartusiak Read By..........: Erik Synnestvedt Genre............: History - Astronomy Publisher........: Gildan Media Corp; Unabridged 2009 Language.........: English Original Media Information ========================== Media............: AAX File Information ================ Number of MP3s...: 18 (Chaptered) Total Duration...: 10 hours 32 minutes Total MP3 Size...: 350 MB Ripped by........: deandominic Ripper...........: Exact Audio Copy Encoder..........: LAME 3.97.2 Encoder Settings.: VBR 80 kbit/s 22500 Hz Mono ID3 Tags.........: v1.1, v2.3 (includes embedded album art) Book Description ================ http://www.amazon.com/Day-We-Found-Universe/dp/0375424296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244802994&sr=1-1 On January 1, 1925, 35-year-old Edwin Hubble announced findings that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. It was a realization that reshaped how humans understood their place in the cosmos. Six years later, continuing research by Hubble and others forced Albert Einstein to renounce his own cosmic model and finally accept the astonishing fact that the universe was not immobile but instead expanding. The story of these interwoven discoveries includes battles of will, clever insights, and wrong turns made by the early investigators in this great twentieth-century pursuit, from the luminaries (Einstein, Hubble, Harlow Shapley) to the lesser known: Henrietta Leavitt, who discovered the means to measure the vast dimensions of the cosmos . . . Vesto Slipher, the first and unheralded discoverer of the universe's expansion... Georges Lemaître, the Jesuit priest who correctly interpreted Einstein's theories in relation to the universe... Milton Humason, who, with only an eighth-grade education, became a world-renowned expert on galaxy motions... and others. Here is the watershed moment in our cosmic history, splendidly arising from the exceptional combination of human curiosity, intelligence, and enterprise.

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fazul (2009-07-13)

Thanks a lot deandominic, this book looks as good as many of the ones you've uploaded already.