Weintraub, David Andrew,  1958- , <br/><br/>
How old is the universe? / 
David A. Weintraub. 
 - 370 páginas :  ilustraciones ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : 13.7 billion years -- pt. 1. The age of objects in our solar system -- 4004 BCE -- Moon rocks and meteorites -- Defying gravity -- pt. 2. The ages of the oldest stars -- Stepping out -- Distances and light -- All stars are not the same -- Giant and dwarf stars -- Reading a Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram -- Mass -- Star clusters -- Mass matters -- White dwarfs and the age of the universe -- Ages of globular clusters and the age of the universe -- pt. 3. The age of the universe -- Cepheids -- An irregular system of globular clusters -- The Milky Way demoted -- The trouble with gravity -- The expanding universe -- The Hubble age of the universe -- The accelerating universe -- Dark matter -- Exotic dark matter -- Hot stuff -- Two kinds of trouble -- The WMAP map of the CMB and the age of the universe -- A consistent answer. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0691147310 069115628X 9780691147314 9780691156286 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cosmología.<br/>Tierra.--Edad.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sistema solar--Edad.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>523.1  / W424h 2011