The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe Report - Softcover

Ferris, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684838613 ISBN 13: 9780684838618

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole.
Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly written overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to go in the twenty-first century. He explores the questions that have occurred to even casual readers -- who are curious about nature on the largest scales: What does it mean to say that the universe is "expanding," or that space is "curved"? -- and sheds light on the possibility that our universe is only one among many universes, each with its own physical laws and prospects for the emergence of life.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Timothy Ferris is the bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way (winner of the American Institute of Physics Prize) and The Mind's Sky (named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times), among other books. An emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in San Francisco.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0684838613
• ISBN 13: 9780684838618
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar