| Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe Contributor(s): Satz, Helmut (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198792425 ISBN-13: 9780198792420 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Cosmology - Science | Time - Science | Physics - Astrophysics |
| Dewey: 523.1 |
| LCCN: 2017943713 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.7" (0.79 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second Copernican revolution: neither our Earth and Sun, nor our galaxy, nor even our universe, are the end of all things. Beyond our world, in an endless multiverse, are innumerable other universes, coming and going, like ours or different. Fourteen billion years ago, one of the many bubbles constantly appearing and vanishing in the multiverse exploded to form our universe. The energy liberated in the explosion provided the basis for all the matter our universe now contains. But how could this hot, primordial plasma eventually produce the complex structure of our present world? Does not order eventually always lead to disorder, to an increase of entropy? Modern cosmology is beginning to find out how it all came about and where it all might lead. Before Time Began tells that story. |