
The Origin Of The Universe
Science Masters Series
John D. Barrow(Author)
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 30. May 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-465-05314-8 (ISBN)
Description
There is no more profound, enduring or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now John Barrow, who has been at the cutting edge of research in this area and has written extensively about it, guides us on a journey to the beginning of time, into a world of temperatures and densities so high that we cannot recreate them in a labouratory. With new insights, Barrow draws us into the latest speculative theories about the nature of time and the inflationary universe," explains wormholes," showing how they bear upon the fact of our own existence, and considers whether there was a singularity" at the inception of the universe. Here is a treatment so up-to-date and intellectually rich, deaing with ideas and speculation at the farthest frontier of science, that neither novice nor expert will want to miss what Barrow has to say. The Origin of the Universe is "In the Beginning" for beginners,the latest information from a first-rate scientist and science writer.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
214 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-05314-8 (9780465053148)
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Person
John Barrow is a professor of astronomy at the University of Sussex, England. He is a co-author of The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, among other books.
Content
* The Universe in a Nutshell * The Great Universal Catalog * The Singularity and Other Problems * Inflation and the Particle Physicists * Inflation and the COBE Search * Timean Even Briefer History * Into the Labyrinth * New Dimensions