The Bigger Bang
The Bigger Bang
$31.99
USDIn the last few years, scientists have begun to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the origin and early evolution of the universe. In a fresh, engaging, and highly readable introduction to these ideas, James Lidsey deftly steers us along a journey back in time to the very origin of the universe. We are introduced to the fascinating ideas scientists are currently developing to explain what happened in the first billion, billion, billion, billionth of a second - the 'inflationary' epoch. Along the way we stop off to review the latest ideas on superstrings, parallel universes and the ultimate fate of our universe. Lucid analogies, clear and concise prose and straightforward language make this book a delight to read. It makes accessible to the general reader some of the most profound and complex ideas about the origin of our universe currently challenging the world's best scientists.
- Uses fresh, novel, and down-to-earth analogies to make cutting-edge ideas in cosmology easily accessible to the general reader
- Clear, concise, and entirely self-contained
- Provides the most up-to-date review available of the latest ideas in cosmology, including topical subjects such as superstrings, the inflationary universe, and parallel universes
Reviews & endorsements
"With simple metaphors glossed with lucid explanations, Lidsey opens to the general reader the darker paradoxes of big bang cosmology...Readers terrified of formulas will count Lidsey as a friend as he guides them painlessly through the fundamental assumptions of the big bang--and then beyond, to the riddles (such as thermal equilibrium) that require modification of the original theory...for the sheer exhilaration of glimpsing the farthest horizons of science, look no further." Booklist
"A fresh, engaging introduction to the cosmos....The Bigger Bang opens to the general reader some of the most profound and complex ideas with which the world's best scientists currently struggle." Science News
Product details
December 2004Adobe eBook Reader
9780511058929
0 pages
0kg
33 b/w illus. 1 table
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Table of Contents
- 1. The structure of the universe
- 2. Why does the sun shine?
- 3. The expansion of the universe
- 4. Space, time and gravity
- 5. Particles and forces
- 6. Grand unification, higher dimensions and superstrings
- 7. The Big Bang
- 8. Beyond the Big Bang
- 9. The inflating universe
- 10. The eternal universe
- 11. Black holes
- 12. The birth of the universe.
