Timeline for How wary should I be of old cosmology books?
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| Aug 24, 2017 at 0:44 | vote | accept | Beta Decay | ||
| Aug 23, 2017 at 19:54 | comment | added | Beta Decay | @JohnDuffield Okay, sure. I'll see as I go | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 19:48 | comment | added | John Duffield | @BetaDecay : I don't know about the Jagjit Singh book, so I bought a cheap secondhand copy to add to my pile. As for Marcus Chown's book, I've got it, and there's some great stuff in there. Yes, as I've learned more about cosmology I've come to appreciate that there is some iffy stuff too. But not much, and generally speaking I'd say it isn't down to Marcus. However it would take me all day to pick through it and flag things up to you, so why don't you read it and ask a bunch of questions? | |
| Aug 22, 2017 at 17:33 | comment | added | Beta Decay | The books are Modern Cosmology by Jadgjit Singh (published 1961 and rereleased in 1970) and Afterglow of Creation by Marcus Chown (published in 1993) | |
| Aug 22, 2017 at 15:57 | history | answered | John Duffield | CC BY-SA 3.0 |