Jeanpierre luminet audio books, best sellers, author. It has 12 faces, 20 vertices, 30 edges, and 160 diagonals 60 face diagonals, 100 space diagonals. Science, art and geometrical imagination jeanpierre. Cafe terrace at night, in arles, vincent has therefore been living in the old city of arles since february 1888. May 2, 2020 jean pierre luminet leave a comment as we have seen in the previous post the starry nights of vincent van goghs 1. This wellwritten book is a comprehensive introduction to one specific proposal for the lay reader. Explore books by jeanpierre luminet with our selection at. Browse jean pierre luminet s bestselling audiobooks and newest titles. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. For jean pierre luminet, of the paris observatory, and his colleagues believe that the universe is, indeed, a dodecahedron. Tom mallins dodecahedron inspired me even as an immature reader, i.
They base their argument on data collected by the wilkinson microwave. A regular dodecahedron or pentagonal dodecahedron is a dodecahedron that is regular, which is composed of twelve regular pentagonal faces, three meeting at each vertex. Jean pierre luminet is one of those who has been studying the way the different possible spatial topologies may be observationally investigated. The paper in nature by jean pierre luminet, jeffrey weeks, alain riazuelo, roland lehoucq, jean phillip uzan states in its abstract. Platonic truths the shape of the universe the economist. All figure content in this area was uploaded by jean pierre luminet. Jean pierre luminet makes the subject of black holes accessible to any interested reader, who will need no mathematical background. As well as working as a researcher for the cnrs france, luminet is one of the main world specialists in the most fascinating objects in astrophysics. Jean pierre luminet what is the shape of space is a longstanding question in cosmology.
Dr jean pierre luminet is an astronomer at meudon observatory in france, a specialist on the subject of black holes, and has also acquired a reputation for being a gifted writer and communicator. His theory of a finite universe in the shape of a dodecahedron made the cover of naturethe prestigious journal in 2003. The reader of this book will feel that the developments in modern astrophysics are as fascinating to discover and digest as the most fantastic science fiction novels. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. In this book he makes the subject of black holes accessible to any interested reader, who will need no mathematical background. The first thing that impressed me about this book by jean pierre luminet is the way the text is organized. Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wideangle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background jean pierre luminet 1 jeffrey r. The subjects covered in these writings include arithmetic, algebra, geometry and innova tive work in both solid geometry and perspective.
Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak. Thes laws can be represented by digital logic forming a logical geometry of an iterated dodecahedron a bucky ball. Although the author seems to suggest that the reader uses the references as a way to jump between different chapters rather. Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. Jeanpierre luminet books and biography waterstones. Dick ray bradbury robert silverberg antoine chainas mary gentle jean philippe jaworski antoine bello maia mazaurette tristan garcia christopher priest richard matheson jean baptiste del amo thomas day mathieu terence marie darrieussecq stephane beauverger jean pierre luminet robert charles wilson. This wellwritten book is a comprehensive introduction to one specific proposal for the lay reader it gives a sound introduction to the relevant cosmological theory and data and discusses in. Jeanpierre luminet has 37 books on goodreads with 11 ratings. August 30, 2018 jean pierre luminet 2 comments until now i published as an author 30 books in my native language french, including 14 science essays, 7 historical novels and 9 poetry collections for the interested reader, visit my french blog here. Jean pierre luminet born 3 june 1951 is a french astrophysicist, writer and poet, worldknown specialist of black holes and cosmology. Jean pierre luminet is an astrophysicist at the parismeudon observatory in france and a leading expert on black holes, cosmology, and the new field of cosmic topology the study of the overall shape of the universe.
I first came across this book in a wh smith sale in 1981 i was working there at the time my first job after leaving school and was immediately intrigued by it. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. The dodecahedral universe claims are based on observations of the furthest reaches of our universe. Being a spherical 3manifold, it is the only homology 3sphere besides the 3sphere itself with a finite fundamental group. Regular dodecahedron wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. This was proposed by jean pierre luminet and colleagues in 2003, 10 11. As a teenager, french astrophysicist jean pierre luminet read about the curved space of einsteins general relativity. Malheureusement, certains passages sont assez difficile a lire et il faut saccrocher.
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