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This text constitutes the proceedings of a topical workshop aimed at understanding the shapes of the baryonic and dark matter components of galaxies. Several groups presented their results from observations and numerical N-body simulations at the Yale Cosmology Workshop, 2001.
Galaxies --- Galactic halos --- Halos, Galactic --- Astrophysics
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This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries-the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the research-an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe. She not only explains for a wide audience the science behind these essential ideas but also provides an understanding of how radical scientific theories gain acceptance. The formation and growth of black holes, dark matter halos, the accelerating expansion of the universe, the echo of the big bang, the discovery of exoplanets, and the possibility of other universes-these are some of the puzzling cosmological topics of the early twenty-first century. Natarajan discusses why the acceptance of new ideas about the universe and our place in it has never been linear and always contested even within the scientific community. And she affirms that, shifting and incomplete as science always must be, it offers the best path we have toward making sense of our wondrous, mysterious universe.
Cosmology --- Cosmology. --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- History.
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Since the 1980s, when the English sculptor Antony Gormley (born 1950) first began casting figures from his own body in lead and iron, his principal concern has been opening up new artistic and social venues for the display of his work. In realizing his latest work, "Horizon Field," in Austria, the artist has installed 100 figures at an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet; the figures face every direction but never towards one another. The mountain landscape, with its beguiling mix of natural beauty, urbanity and the sociality of old valley communities, provides an ideal experimental field for Gormley's investigations into the relationship between nature and culture. Of this project, the artist said: "It asks basic questions: who are we, what are we, where do we come from and to where are we headed?" Photographs of the landscape installation are contextualized with images of the artist's previous works. Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (21.09.-03.12.2019).
7.07 --- Beeldhouwkunst ; 20ste en 21ste eeuw ; 1975-2019 ; A.Gormley --- Gormley, Antony °1950 (°Londen, Groot-Brittannië) --- Schetsen --- Tekeningen --- Beelden --- Installaties --- Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z --- Gormley, Antony --- Gormli, Entoni --- Гормли, Ентони --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sculpture --- installations [visual works] --- drawing [image-making] --- public art --- concrete --- human figures [visual works]
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