Physics Cosmology Resources
January 3, 2007 8:28 PM   Subscribe

A History of Scientific Cosmology from the American Institute of Physics has some great articles on the history of cosmology.
posted by RussHy (5 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Ah, what a great site. I like that they include this quote:

I have erected but a lofty castle in the air... I compare space to a cloth floating (at rest) in the air, a certain part of which we can observe. This part is slightly curved similarly to a small section of a sphere's surface. We philosophize on how we must construe the continuation of the cloth so that an equilibrium is reached in its tangential tension, whether it is fastened in position at the edges, extends infinitely, or has a finite size and is a closed unit. Heine has provided the answer in a poem: "And a fool waits for an answer."... So let us be satisfied and not expect an answer, and rather see each other again as soon as possible in acceptable health in Leyden.

—Einstein to de Sitter, 1916
posted by vacapinta at 8:37 PM on January 3, 2007


Brilliant site RussHy and superb quotation vacapinta.
posted by nickyskye at 8:47 PM on January 3, 2007


I thought this was going to be a history of beauticians, boy was I wrong!

I kid, thanks RussHy
posted by Pollomacho at 8:58 PM on January 3, 2007


I assume that anyone ionterested in this has already read Simon Singh's Big Bang, but if you haven't, I highly recommend.
posted by qldaddy at 8:06 AM on January 4, 2007


Anyone interested should also read it.

(too late to blame lack of coffee... must be the unseasonably warm weather... yeah, that's it)
posted by qldaddy at 8:08 AM on January 4, 2007


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