The Resource Empire of the stars : friendship, obsession and betrayal in the quest for black holes, Arthur I. Miller
Empire of the stars : friendship, obsession and betrayal in the quest for black holes, Arthur I. Miller
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The item Empire of the stars : friendship, obsession and betrayal in the quest for black holes, Arthur I. Miller represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- "August 1930, on a voyage from Madras to London, a young Indian looked up at the stars and contemplated their fate. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Chandra, as he was called - calculated that certain stars would suffer a strange and violent death, collapsing to virtually nothing. This extraordinary claim, the first mathematical description of black holes, brought Chandra into direct conflict with Sir Arthur Eddington, one of the greatest astrophysicists of the day. Eddington ridiculed the young man's idea at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1935, sending Chandra into an intellectual and emotional tailspin - and hindering the progress of astrophysics for nearly forty years."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 400 p., [16] p. of plates
- Contents
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- 1. Fatal collision
- 2. A journey between two worlds
- 3. Rival giants of astrophysics
- 4. Stellar buffoonery
- 5. Into the crucibles of nature
- 6. Eddington's discontents
- 7. American adventure
- 8. An era ends
- 9. How stars shine and how they die
- 10. Supernovae in the heavens and on earth
- 11. How the unthinkable became thinkable
- 12. The jaws of darkness
- 13. Shuddering before the beautiful
- 14. Into a black hole
- App. A. The ongoing tale of Sirius B
- App. B. Updating the supernova story
- Isbn
- 9780349116273
- Label
- Empire of the stars : friendship, obsession and betrayal in the quest for black holes
- Title
- Empire of the stars
- Title remainder
- friendship, obsession and betrayal in the quest for black holes
- Statement of responsibility
- Arthur I. Miller
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "August 1930, on a voyage from Madras to London, a young Indian looked up at the stars and contemplated their fate. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Chandra, as he was called - calculated that certain stars would suffer a strange and violent death, collapsing to virtually nothing. This extraordinary claim, the first mathematical description of black holes, brought Chandra into direct conflict with Sir Arthur Eddington, one of the greatest astrophysicists of the day. Eddington ridiculed the young man's idea at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1935, sending Chandra into an intellectual and emotional tailspin - and hindering the progress of astrophysics for nearly forty years."
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Miller, Arthur I
- Dewey number
- 520.92
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Chandrasekhar, S.
- Eddington, Arthur Stanley
- Astrophysicists
- Astrophysicists
- Astrophysics
- Hydrogen bomb
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Relativity (Physics)
- Quantum theory
- Label
- Empire of the stars : friendship, obsession and betrayal in the quest for black holes, Arthur I. Miller
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- 1. Fatal collision -- 2. A journey between two worlds -- 3. Rival giants of astrophysics -- 4. Stellar buffoonery -- 5. Into the crucibles of nature -- 6. Eddington's discontents -- 7. American adventure -- 8. An era ends -- 9. How stars shine and how they die -- 10. Supernovae in the heavens and on earth -- 11. How the unthinkable became thinkable -- 12. The jaws of darkness -- 13. Shuddering before the beautiful -- 14. Into a black hole -- App. A. The ongoing tale of Sirius B -- App. B. Updating the supernova story
- Control code
- 226114
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 400 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780349116273
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.)
- Label
- Empire of the stars : friendship, obsession and betrayal in the quest for black holes, Arthur I. Miller
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- 1. Fatal collision -- 2. A journey between two worlds -- 3. Rival giants of astrophysics -- 4. Stellar buffoonery -- 5. Into the crucibles of nature -- 6. Eddington's discontents -- 7. American adventure -- 8. An era ends -- 9. How stars shine and how they die -- 10. Supernovae in the heavens and on earth -- 11. How the unthinkable became thinkable -- 12. The jaws of darkness -- 13. Shuddering before the beautiful -- 14. Into a black hole -- App. A. The ongoing tale of Sirius B -- App. B. Updating the supernova story
- Control code
- 226114
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 400 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780349116273
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.)
Subject
- Astrophysicists -- India -- Biography
- Astrophysics -- History -- 20th century
- trueBlack holes (Astronomy)
- Chandrasekhar, S., (Subrahmanyan), 1910-
- Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944
- Astrophysicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueQuantum theory
- trueRelativity (Physics)
- trueHydrogen bomb
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