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If I occasionally sound like I know what Im talking about in this book, its because I have had access to goodno, great sources of information. In this business you cant be any better than your sources, at least the ones who deign to speak with you at length, even when youre not a card-carrying astrophysicist.

So first and foremost, I want to thank the many scientists who returned my phone calls and emails, or who were generous enough to grant me an interview or just chat. Most notably these include Roberto Abraham, John Bahcall, Neta Bahcall, Elizabeth Barton, Steven Beckwith, Eric Bell, Rychard Bouwens, Andy Bunker, Chris Carilli, Christopher Conselice, Jean-Gabriel Cuby, George Djorgovski, Simon Driver, Richard Ellis, Owen Gingerich, Bradley Hansen, Gary Hinshaw, Raul Jimenez, Shardha Jogee, Bill Keel, Ken Kellermann, Edward Kolb, Mario Livio, Jim Lyke, Barry Madore, Paul Martini, Ann Nelson, Kenichi Nomoto, P.J.E. Peebles, James Rhodes, Adam Riess, Michael Santos, Paul Shapiro, Michael Shull, J. D. Smith, Rachel Somerville, Daniel Stark, Max Tegmark, David Thompson, Rodger Thompson, Jason Tumlinson, Liese van Zee, Aparna Venkatesan, J. Craig Wheeler,Robert Williams, and Rogier Windhorst. My apologies to anyone I may have inadvertently left out.

I wish to offer my sincere appreciation to Stephen P. Maran, chief press officer of the American Astronomical Society, who arranged for interview space at the AAS meetings, helped line up interviewees, and has always been at the ready with sage advice and support. Im beholden to the staffs at the Gemini and Keck observatories for allowing us very generous access to their facilities on Mauna Kea. A special thanks to Peter Michaud for being our guide and resident expert at Gemini, and to Rich Matsuda for spontaneously volunteering his services as guide at Keck.

I shudder to think where any science writer would be without the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database ( http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ . ), the astro-ph site maintained by Cornell University ( http://xxx.lanl.gov/list/astro-ph/new ), and the NASA Astrophysics Data System ( http://adswww.harvard.edu/ ). A special thanks to Dr. Edward Wrights JavaScript Cosmology Calculator ( http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html ), where you, too, can be a cosmologist.

In writing about something as recondite as cosmology, its invaluable to have a sympathetic inside expert, someone you can seek out when you have the inevitable moronic questions that youre too embarrassed to ask anyone else. For me, that person was George Djorgovski. Many of his insightful comments found their way into these pages. I dont think he will mind my referring to him as one of the true natural philosophers working in astronomy today.

My heartfelt thanks to Regula Noetzli, who championed my book proposal above and beyond the calling of any literary agent, and to my editor, Joseph Wisnovsky, whose name opened many doors and whose fine-point editing kept me on the beam.

Finally, Id like to thank Alexandra Witze, my award-winning science-writing wife, for reading each chapter (despite her penchant for planetary geology), making her usual astute editorial suggestions, being a patient sounding board, and most of all for encouraging me at a time when I needed it most.

Aside from interviews and e-mail exchanges with astronomers, a great deal of this book is based on the references below. The books listed provide mainly historical and fundamental background material, while the papers and articles reflect largely recent research, though a few, such as the letter by Fritz Zwicky, are of historical interest. With respect to the astro-ph/ and in press references, since the production process of a book like this precedes its publishing date by roughly a year, readers may assume that most of these papers have now been published in science journals, books, or proceedings. Bear in mind that some of the final versions of those papers may differ slightly from the ones cited here.

BOOKS

Arp, Halton. Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. California Institute of Technology, 1966. Available online at http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/Arp_contents.html .

Berendzen, Richard, Richard Hart, and Daniel Seeley. Man Discovers the Galaxies. Columbia University Press, 1984.

Danielson, Richard Dennis, ed. The Book of the Cosmos: Imaging the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking. Helix Books, Perseus Publishing, 2000.

Eddington, Sir Arthur. The Expanding Universe. Cambridge Science Classics, 1987.

Harrison, Edward. Cosmology: The Science of the Universe , 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Harwit, M. Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope, and Heritage of Astronomy. MIT Press, 1984.

Hubble, Edwin. The Realm of the Nebulae. Yale University Press, 1936, 1982. Kirshner, Robert P. The Extravagant Universe. Princeton University Press, 2002.

Lang, Kenneth R., and Owen Gingerich. A Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900-1975. Harvard University Press, 1979.

Lemonick, Michael D. Echo of the Big Bang. Princeton University Press, 2003.

Livio, Mario. The Accelerating Universe. John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Maran, Stephen P. The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.

Mnch, G., A. Mampaso, and F. Snchez, eds. The Universe at Large: Key Issues in Astronomy and Cosmology. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

North, John. The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology. W. W. Norton & Co., 1995.

Peebles, P.J.E. Principles of Physical Cosmology. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Rees, Martin. Just Six Numbers. Basic Books, 1999.

Sandage, Allan. The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1961.

Shapley, Harlow, ed. Source Book in Astronomy, 1900-1950. Harvard University Press, 1960.

Silk, Joseph. The Big Bang, 3rd ed. W. H. Freeman & Co., 2001.

Singh, Simon. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe. Fourth Estate, 2004.

Sparke, Linda S., and John S. Gallagher. Galaxies in the Universe. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Struve, Otto, and Velta Zebergs. Astronomy of the 20th Century. Macmillan, 1962.

Waller, William H., and Paul W. Hodge. Galaxies and the Cosmic Frontier. Harvard University Press, 2003.

ARTICLES AND SCIENCE PAPERS

Abel, Tom, et al. The Formation of the First Star in the Universe. Science 295 (2002): 93-98.

Abraham, Roberto G., et al. The Gemini Deep Deep Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey, Catalogs, and Composite Spectra. Astronomical Journal 127, no. 5 (2004): 2455-83.

Babul, Arif, and Henry C. Ferguson. Faint Blue Galaxies and the Epoch of Dwarf Galaxy Formation. Astrophysical Journal 458 (1996): 100-19.

Bahcall, John N., et al. What the Longest Exposures from the Hubble Space Telescope Will Reveal. Science 248 (1990): 178-83.

Bahcall, N. A., et al. The Cosmic Triangle: Revealing the State of the Universe. Science 284 (1999): 1481-88.

Banks, Thomas. The Cosmological Constant Problem. Physics Today 57 (March 2004): 4651.

Barkana, Rennan, and Abraham Loeb. Unusually Large Fluctuations in the Statistics of Galaxy Formation at High Redshift. Astrophysical Journal 609, no. 2 (2004): 47481.

Baron, E., and Simon D. M. White. The Appearance of Primeval Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal 322 (1987): 585-96.

Barton, Elizabeth. Searching for Star Formation Beyond Reionization. Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 604 (2004): L14.

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