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TIME, SPACE, STARS AND MAN
The Story of the Big Bang
CONTENTS
FRONT MATTER
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Musing
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
1
The Universe
Christian Doppler and His Effect
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
11
Measuring Distances in the Universe
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
19
Edwin Hubble's Expanding Universe
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
31
A Weird and Wonderful Universe
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
39
Matter and the Universe
The Nature of Matter
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
53
The Big Bang Hypothesis
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
65
How Matter Can Clump Together
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
73
The Universe Develops Structure
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
87
Stars, Stellar Clusters and Galaxies
The First Stars are Born, Live and Die
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
95
The Formation of Globular Clusters and Galaxies
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
109
Making the Sun — And Similar Stars
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
119
A Crowded Environment
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
135
The Solar System
Understanding the Nature of the Solar System
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
143
Introducing the Planets
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
157
Satellites Galore
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
173
“Vermin of the Sky” and Other Small Bodies
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
193
Planets Galore
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
207
Forming the Solar System
Making Planets
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
217
Shrinking Orbits and the Survival of Planetary Systems
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
229
Now Satellites Form
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
247
What Can Be Learnt from Meteorites?
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
259
A Little-Bang Theory and the Terrestrial Planets
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
269
The Moon — Its Structure and History
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
281
The Very Small Planets — Mars and Mercury
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
291
Bits and Pieces in the Solar System
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
299
The Dwarf Planets and Triton
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
307
Life on Earth
The Earth Settles Down — More-or-Less
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
315
What Is Life?
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
321
The Alphabets of Life
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
333
Life Begins on Earth
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
347
The Survival of the Fittest
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
355
The Restless Earth
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
369
Oxygen, Ozone and the Evolution of Life
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
379
Man and the Earth
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
399
Musing Again
MICHAEL M WOOLFSON
407
BACK MATTER
409
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