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How Old Is the Universe?, Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe? tells the incredible story of how astronomers solved one of the most compelling mysteries in sci, How Old Is the Universe?
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  • How Old Is the Universe?
  • Written by author David A. Weintraub
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 10/28/2012
  • Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe? tells the incredible story of how astronomers solved one of the most compelling mysteries in sci
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Chapter 1 Introduction: 13.7 Billion Years 1

PART I. The Age of Objects in Our Solar System

Chapter 2 4004 bce 9

Chapter 3 Moon Rocks and Meteorites 16

Chapter 4 Defying Gravity 27

PART II. The Ages of the Oldest Stars

Chapter 5 Stepping Out 43

Chapter 6 Distances and Light 55

Chapter 7 All Stars Are Not the Same 61

Chapter 8 Giant and Dwarf Stars 78

Chapter 9 Reading a Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) Diagram 94

Chapter 10 Mass 101

Chapter 11 Star Clusters 111

Chapter 12 Mass Matters 126

Chapter 13 White Dwarfs and the Age of the Universe 133

Chapter 14 Ages of Globular Clusters and the Age of the Universe 159

PART III. The Age of the Universe

Chapter 15 Cepheids 175

Chapter 16 An Irregular System of Globular Clusters 191

Chapter 17 The Milky Way Demoted 202

Chapter 18 The Trouble with Gravity 209

Chapter 19 The Expanding Universe 217

Chapter 20 The Hubble Age of the Universe 235

Chapter 21 The Accelerating Universe 245

Chapter 22 Dark Matter 261

Chapter 23 Exotic Dark Matter 282

Chapter 24 Hot Stuff 301

Chapter 25 Two Kinds of Trouble 319

Chapter 26 The WMAP Map of the CMB and the Age of the Universe 333

Chapter 27 A Consistent Answer 360

Index 365


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