by Richard Easther | Sep 13, 2017 | Astronomy, Physics, Science in Our Lives
It has been a bitter-sweet month for solar system explorers. As a teenager and a space-geek, I had a poster of this iconic montage of montage of Saturn’s moons, composed from images taken by the two Voyager probes as they rushed past the ringed planet. Time...
by Richard Easther | Sep 11, 2017 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics
This week I acquired a copy of Steven Weinberg’s 1977 book The First Three Minutes, courtesy of an emeritus colleague downsizing his library. It was the first detailed popularisation of the Big Bang and is a pop sci classic, written by one of the leading theoretical...
