HOW do you judge an encyclopedia of cosmology? I looked up entries on areas I know about and quickly found a basic misconception. The authors say the night sky is dark because there has been insufficient time for stars to have filled space with starlight. Actually the universe鈥檚 age is irrelevant; stars do not contain enough energy to ever fill space with light. This finding was a shame, because The Oxford Companion to Cosmology is an otherwise authoritative and entertaining book. Steven Weinberg鈥檚 Cosmology is by contrast a thorough, graduate-level introduction to the field, which incorporates the frenzied developments since his 1972 classic, Gravitation and Cosmology. This is sure to be another hit.
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