The Inflationary Universe - Couverture souple

Guth, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0201328402 ISBN 13 : 9780201328400

Editeur : Basic Books, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Guth Alan

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

This is the compelling, first-hand account of Alan Guth's paradigm-breaking discovery of the origins of the universe and of his dramatic rise from young researcher to physics superstar. Guth's startling theory widely regarded as one of the most important contributions to science during the twentieth century states that the big bang was set into motion by a period of hyper-rapid inflation,” lasting only a billion-trillion-billionth of a second. The Inflationary Universe is the passionate story of one leading scientist's effort to look behind the cosmic veil and explain how the universe began.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This classic Big Bang text neatly describes what happened after the bang. Yet, until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the Big Bang Theory still couldn't answer, primarily: If matter can neither be created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? Alan Guth's Inflationary Universe Theory answers these vexing questions. When NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite measured the non-uniformities of the cosmic background radiation for the first time in 1992, the patterns agreed exquisitely with the theory's predictions.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0201328402
• ISBN 13: 9780201328400
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 358