Wonders of the Universe - Brian Cox [106]
Vulcan (hypothetical planet) 186–7, 186–7
W
Watt, James 214
wave equations 36, 37, 37
weak nuclear force 12, 106, 110, 140, 181
weight and mass, differences between 154–5
weightlessness 141, 142, 144–5, 144, 145, 155
white dwarf star 128, 129, 181, 230, 233, 234, 235, 235
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 70–1, 70
Wilson, Robert 69
Wolf-Rayet star 30–1, 227
wonder, the value of 10–11
X
XX-33 Romeo (hydrogen bomb) 115
Y
Young’s double-slit experiment 34–5
Z
Z Camelopardalis (binary star system) 234, 235, 235
‘ZAMS’ (zero ago main sequence) star 29
zodiacal light 164–5, 164–5
Zwicky 18 (dwarf galaxy) 25, 25
PICTURE CREDITS
The authors and publisher would like to thank Burrell Durrant Hifle for all the CGI images and for their help with the project as well as Jon Murray at UNIT for his help.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In writing this book we’d like to thank all of those who were involved in the BBC television production of Wonders of the Universe. We’d especially like to thank Jonathan Renouf and James van der Pool for their commitment and dedication to the series and Stephen Cooter, Michael Lachmann and Chris Holt for transforming such complex content into beautiful television.
We’d like to thank, Rebecca Edwards, Diana Ellis-Hill, Laura Mulholland, Ben Wilson, Kevin White, George McMillan, Chris Openshaw, Darren Jonusas, Peter Norrey, Simon Sykes, Suzie Brand, Louise Salkow, Laura Davey, Paul Appleton, Sheridan Tongue, Julie Wilkinson, Laetitia Ducom, Lydia Delmonte, Daisy Newman, Jane Rundle, Nicola Kingham and the team at BDH and Unit post production.
We’d like to thank Sue Ryder, Professor Jeff Forshaw, Myles Archibald and all the team at Harper Collins for their help and guidance.
We’d like to thank Kevin White for his outstanding photography on location.
Brian would like to thank The University of Manchester and The Royal Society for allowing him the time to make Wonders.
Andrew would like to thank Anna for her endless support in the writing of this book.
About the Author
Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known to the public as a science broadcaster and presenter of the hugely popular BBC2 series Wonders of the Solar System and Stargazing Live. He was also the keyboard player in the UK pop band D:Ream in the 1990s.
Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC2 series Wonders of the Solar System. He began his career in science broadcasting 15 years ago and has produced a wide range of science documentaries including Tomorrow’s World and Horizon. From 2005–10 he was Series Editor of the flagship BBC science strand Horizon. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
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Cover photographs © BBC 2011 (Brian Cox); NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team (nebula); Goronwy Tudor Jones/University of Birmingham/Science Photo Library (particle shower); Shutterstock (all other images).
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