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Mapping the Heavens (Alumni Books Podcast)
Slice of MIT
English - May 19, 2016 18:32 - 17 minutes - 24 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCourses Education Technology mit alumni slice massachusetts institute technology research cambridge authors boston Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In her new book Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos, Priyamvada Natarajan ’91, SM ’11 tells the stories of Einstein’s troubles with gravity, an expanding universe, and dark matter. For Natarajan, a professor of physics at Yale University, Einstein is just one of a cast of characters in 20th century astronomy and cosmology whose struggles are at times amusing and at other times most inspiring. Read more: http://bit.ly/23YS3ct
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