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On the Shores of the Unknown - A Short History of the Universe (Hardcover)
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On the Shores of the Unknown - A Short History of the Universe (Hardcover)
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Price R400
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Astronomer Joseph Silk explores the Universe from its beginnings to
its ultimate fate. He demonstrates how cosmologists study cosmic
fossils and relics from the distant past to construct theories of
the birth, evolution and future of the Universe. Stars, galaxies,
dark matter and dark energy are described, as successive chapters
detail the evolution of the Universe from a fraction of a
microsecond after the Big Bang. Silk describes how physicists apply
theories of subatomic particles to recreate the first moments of
the Big Bang, and how astronomers chart the vast depths of space to
glimpse how the most distant galaxies formed. He gives an account
of the search for dark matter and the dark energy that will
determine the ultimate fate of the Universe. Joseph Silk is the
Savilian Professor of Astronomy and Head of the Astrophysics
Department at the University of Oxford. He was previously Professor
of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a
BA in Mathematics from Clare College, Cambridge, and a PhD in
Astronomy from Harvard University. Silk is the author, or
co-author, of many books, including The Left Hand of Creation
(Basic Books, 1994) and A Short History of the Universe (WH
Freeman, 1997). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the American
Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
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