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The Universe - A Biography (Hardcover)
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The Universe - A Biography (Hardcover)
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The story of our Universe, from its beginning in the first
milliseconds of the Big Bang right up to our present moment and
beyond, told in a gripping narrative. We have entered a new age of
exploration and discovery, enabling us to probe ever more distant
reaches of space and greatly advance our knowledge of the Universe.
Today, telescopes peer not only into outer space, but also into the
deep past. Paul Murdin takes us on an original and breathtaking
journey across the lifetime of the Universe, from the first
milliseconds of the Big Bang right up to our present moment and
even beyond. Murdin draws on the latest discoveries in astronomy to
describe the most important characters and events in the life of
our Universe: the most powerful explosions, the most curious
planets, and the most spectacular celestial bodies. He charts our
developing understanding of the cosmos, showing how thinkers have
deduced profound truths from even the simplest observations -
everyone can see that it is dark at night, but only recently have
we understood this as proof that the Universe has not been the same
forever. Since then, the Universe has grown up from childhood:
astronomers have tracked it as it passed through maturity and as it
now moves into middle age. Murdin shows how our own lives were
seeded from the Big Bang, galaxies, stars and planets. He considers
some of the key questions: how did structures like galaxies and
ourselves emerge from the dense maelstrom of the Universe's birth?
How did the 'dark matter' that we can't even see speed up the
development of galaxies, and how does 'dark energy' work to speed
up the expansion of the Universe? Why hasn't the Universe collapsed
in on itself - and will it one day? And finally, he offers a
glimpse into the future old age of our Universe, and what it means
for us all.
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