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ASTR UN1610 THEOR-UNIVERS:BABYLON-BIG BANG. 3.00 points.
CC/GS: Partial Fulfillment of Science Requirement
Milestones in the science of cosmology over the past 6000 years. Skylore and observation in ancient cultures. The twin revolutions of the Greeks: Pythagoras and Ptolemy; and Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Great Chain of Being. The scientific revolution: the impersonal and deterministic world-order of Newton, Laplace, and Kelvin. The erosion of that world-order by mathematics and experiment in the 20th century (relativity, quantum physics, dark matter, and the expanding universe). Todays searches for a new grand order in the Universe, which can cope - or maybe not - with these blows to yesterdays comfortable wisdom
Spring 2022: ASTR UN1610
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Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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ASTR 1610 | 001/13398 | T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm 209 Havemeyer Hall |
Joseph Patterson | 3.00 | 65/80 |