This is an accessible, non-mathematical guide to all the central issues of cosmology, taking the reader through recent breakthroughs, hypotheses and arguments: the inflationary universe immediately subsequent to the Big Bang; quantum cosmology and Hartle and Hawking's wave-function of the universe; the discovery and significance of large-scale galactic structure; the evolution of the universe(s) and the many-worlds hypothesis of parallel universes; the various anthropic principles; the controversies over the Big Bang and the discovery of the ripples in the microwave background radiatioon; the issues of the existence of other intelligent life-forms; and the possibility of the evidence of life on Mars.
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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.
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Stated: First published in Great Britain in 1997. Copyright 1997; printed in Great Britain. Soft cover in fine condition with bright, crisp, uncreased wraps. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. * From the book, "We are living in a golden age of cosmology, the science of the universe as a whole. What is said of the seventeenth century in the study of our solar system, or of the early twentieth century in quantum mechanics, will be said of cosmology in our own time - that never before in history was so much about one field of science learned so quickly by so few.". Codice articolo 000632
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