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A Little Book about the Big Bang (Hardcover)
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A Little Book about the Big Bang (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R593
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A concise introduction to the greatest questions of modern
cosmology. What came before the big bang? How will the universe
evolve into the future? Will there be a big crunch? Questions like
these have no definitive answers, but there are many contending
theories. In A Little Book about the Big Bang, physicist and writer
Tony Rothman guides expert and uninitiated readers alike through
the most compelling mysteries surrounding the nature and origin of
the universe. Cosmologists are busy these days, actively
researching dark energy, dark matter, and quantum gravity, all at
the foundation of our understanding of space, time, and the laws
governing the universe. Enlisting thoughtful analogies and a
step-by-step approach, Rothman breaks down what is known and what
isn't and details the pioneering experimental techniques scientists
are bringing to bear on riddles of nature at once utterly basic and
stunningly complex. In Rothman's telling, modern cosmology proves
to be an intricate web of theoretical predictions confirmed by
exquisitely precise observations, all of which make the theory of
the big bang one of the most solid edifices ever constructed in the
history of science. At the same time, Rothman is careful to
distinguish established physics from speculation, and in doing so
highlights current controversies and avenues of future exploration.
The idea of the big bang is now almost a century old, yet with each
new year comes a fresh enigma. That is scientific progress in a
nutshell: every groundbreaking discovery, every creative
explanation, provokes new and more fundamental questions. Rothman
takes stock of what we have learned and encourages readers to
ponder the mysteries to come.
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