The Extravagant Universe by Robert Kirschner, Princeton University Press, 拢19.95, ISBN 0691058628
BOB KIRSCHNER is one of the liveliest and most amusing lecturers in the world of astronomy so it was with great anticipation that I turned to his first popular book on astronomy. I was not disappointed. It’s wonderful. The Extravagant Universe is an entertaining and witty account of one of the biggest scientific stories of the past 10 years: how exploding supernovae show that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.
Kirschner has worked on supernovae for the past 30 years and is one of the major figures…
