From: "JACK L. URETSKY (C)1998; HEP DIVISION, ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB ARGONNE, IL 60439" <JLU@HEP.ANL.GOV>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:51:52 -0600
Dan Schroeder, doing his <ad hominem> thing, writes:
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Besides Ferris (who is only a journalist and doesn't always get his
facts straight), I recommend Weinberg's The First Three Minutes
and, for the brave, Peebles, Principles of Physical Cosmology.
Dan Schroeder
dschroeder@cc.weber.edu
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Au contraire, he is an astronomer. You may contact him by
e-mail at u-c berkeley. He was, as I understand it, a journalist before
he became an astronomer. Perhaps that explains why he is more literate
and careful of his facts than most.
Regards,
Jack
"I scored the next great triumph for science myself,
to wit, how the milk gets into the cow. Both of us
had marveled over that mystery a long time. We had
followed the cows around for years - that is, in the
daytime - but had never caught them drinking fluid of
that color."
Mark Twain, Extract from Eve's
Autobiography