Bubbles, voids, and bumps in time : the new cosmology / [electronic resource]
edited by James Cornell.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- xiii, 190 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Lectures presented at the spring 1987 Lowell Institute series given in Boston and Washington, D.C.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Discovering the universe : an introduction / Alan P. Lightman -- Measuring the universe : redshifts and standard candles / Robert P. Kirshner -- Mapping the universe : slices and bubbles / Margaret J. Geller -- Weighing the universe : dark matter and missing mass / Vera C. Rubin -- Starting the universe : the bib gang and cosmic inflation / Alan H. Guth -- Expanding the universe : space telescope and beyond in the next twenty years / James E. Gunn.