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Echo of the big bang
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ISBN: 0691102783 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford, UK : Princeton University Press,

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A tight-knit, high-powered group of scientists and engineers spent eight years building a satellite designed, in effect, to read the genome of the universe. The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) has finally reported in--and it's found things nobody ever expected. For more than a year now, the MAP satellite has been hovering in the cold of deep space, a million miles from Earth, in an effort to determine whether the science of cosmology--the study of the origin and evolution of the universe--has been on the right track for the past two decades. What MAP has been looking for is a barely perceptible pattern of hot and cold spots in the faint whisper of microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang, the event that 14 billion years ago gave birth to all of space, time, matter, and energy. The pattern encoded in those microwaves will provide the answers to some of the great unanswered questions of cosmology: What is the universe made of ? What is its geometry? How much of it consists of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that continue to baffle astronomers ? How fast is it expanding ? And did it undergo a period of inflationary hyper-expansion at the very beginning ? MAP has now given definitive answers to these mysteries--and they are not what everyone expected.Telling the full story of MAP and its surprising revelations, this book is both a personal and a scientific tale of discovery. In its pages, readers will come to know the science of cosmology and the people who have finally, seventy-four years after we first learned that the universe is expanding, deciphered its mysteries.

Conversion in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages : seeing and believing
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ISSN: 15394905 ISBN: 1580461255 9781580461252 Year: 2003 Volume: *2 Publisher: Rochester (N. Y.) : University of Rochester press,

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This volume explores religious conversion in late antique and early medieval Europe at a time when the utility of the concept is vigorously debated. Though conversion was commonly represented by ancient and early medieval writers as singular and personally momentous mental events, contributors to this volume find gradual and incomplete social processes lurking behind their words. A mixture of examples and approaches will both encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge and spark new thinking across a variety of sub-fields. The historical settings treated here stretch from the Roman Hellenism of Justin Martyr in the second century to the ninth-century programs of religious and moral correction by resourceful Carolingian reformers. Baptismal orations, funerary inscriptions, Christian narratives about the conversion of stage-performers, a bronze statue of Constantine, early Byzantine ethnographic writings, and re-located relics are among the book's imaginative points of entry. This focused collection of essays by leading scholars, and the afterword by Neil McLynn, should ignite conversations among students of religious conversion and related processes of cultural interaction, diffusion, and change both in the historical sub-fields of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and well beyond.--provided by publisher.

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