Challenges the dominant big bang theory of the origins of the universe, arguing that the universe has neither a beginning nor an end and that it has endured and evolved through an infinite period of time
The big bang theory of cosmology - the idea that the universe originated in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty billion years ago - has become the foundation stone not only of modern astronomy, but also of all current ...
Furthermore, an explanation has yet to be found for what caused the Big Bang in the first place. In Endless Universe, Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok, both distinguished theoretical physicists, present a bold new cosmology.
"Hogan compresses the fifteen-billion-year history of the Universe into a pleasurable evening.
Alucid Description of Big Bang Theory is first presented.
This is a different kind of book about cosmology, a field of major interest to professional astronomers, physicists, and the general public.
That technology, called the variable time (VT) proximity fuse, had been designed in part by space scientist James Van Allen, who also worked at APL. After the war, Van Allen switched to the study of cosmic rays in the atmosphere, ...
Presents the observations that helped establish our theories of the cosmos, from a unique and engaging perspective.
With characteristic clarity, Simon Singh tells the centuries-long story of mankind's attempt to understand how the universe came to be, a story which itself begins some 14 billion years ago (give or take a billion years).
At the edge of time -- A world of time and space -- A world without a beginning?
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