Priyamvada Natarajan. (2016). Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Priyamvada Natarajan. 2016. Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. Blackstone Publishing.

Priyamvada Natarajan, Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. Blackstone Publishing, 2016.

Priyamvada Natarajan. Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2016.

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     Priyamvada Natarajan is professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University and holds the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Professorship at the Dark Center, Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Her research on dark matter, dark energy, and black holes has won her many awards and honors, including Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships. Invested in public dissemination of science and numerical literacy, she is a member of the advisory board of NOVA ScienceNow, participates regularly in the World Science Festival, and writes for the New York Review of Books.

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Mapping the Heavens 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 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.

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   • content: Listeners will be mesmerized by this audiobook as it unfolds its little-known cosmological booty. Using pacing, expression, and a confident tone, narrator Elisabeth Rodgers gives a flawless performance. For the armchair cosmologist the acronyms are many, and the words they represent even more mind-boggling. For instance, the big bang theory of how the universe began has been proven because scientists identified CMBR (cosmic microwave background radiation), a hissing sound that is a known remnant of the big bang. Cosmologists not content with this are now looking to discover other universes in what they call "the multiverse." It's a spellbinding listen with a super guide. E.E.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
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     Starred review from March 28, 2016
     The human view of the universe has changed radically over the last century, and this accessible work from Natarajan, professor of astronomy and physics and Yale, highlights those changes as well as the personalities—and the battles—behind them. She begins with the momentous announcement in the early 20th century that the known universe was expanding—a concept that Albert Einstein, for one, fought and failed to disprove. Expansion suggested the idea of an ancient “big bang,” the name sarcastically bestowed by physicist Fred Hoyle, who, like Einstein, preferred a “steady-state” universe. Natarajan digs into the work, including that done by both doubters and innovators, that has helped formed the foundations of what is currently known about dark matter and dark energy, black holes (another phenomenon Einstein vehemently disliked), gravity, and the evolution of our universe. In the penultimate chapter, she examines the search for exoplanets, the multiverse, and intelligent extraterrestrial life. By introducing the major players behind each discovery, Natarajan adds a lively human touch to her discussion, reinforcing the dynamism of a field that “fans human curiosity and is driven by it as well.” Photos & illus.

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