witam cosmo-torun

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Biblioteka CA UMK wrote:

Mam prosbe o popatrzenie na zalacznik - czy taka ksiazka-album o Kosmosie znajdzie wsrod Panstwa czytelnikow.

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W nawiazaniu do rozmowy telefonicznej przesyłam w załączniku dodatkowe informacje na temat wspaniałego albumu Gilesa Sparrowa - KOSMOS. Zapraszam na www.kmktychy.pl

Talking about the "edge of space" in an abstract to a popular astronomy+cosmology book

http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Giles-Sparrow/dp/1905204299

seems like a bad pedagogical strategy to me. We need to understand the observer's point of view, but our standard model is based on an underlying spacetime (pseudo-4-manifold + metric that solve the Einstein equations), not just a past time cone.

It might be nice as a "coffee table book" - it's motivational to see big beautiful pictures. On the other hand with a small (zero) budget, i would tend to go for research/teaching-level books.

At the moment we have three books listed on our wiki - please anyone update the wiki page: http://cosmo.torun.pl/foswiki/bin/view/Cosmo/BibliotekaCosmo what we want * Padmanabhan, 1993 Structure Formation in the Universe * Schilpp 1949 Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist * Bolejko et al 2009 Structures in the Universe by Exact Methods

Schilpp 1949 has the Infeld cosmic topology comment about electromagnetism - apparently the first person to talk about physical "effects" of cosmic topology.

pozdr boud