An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe - Couverture souple

Kinney, Will

 
9780262547222: An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe
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ISBN 10 : 0262547228 ISBN 13 : 9780262547222
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2023

Synopsis

What happened before the primordial fire of the Big Bang: a theory about the ultimate origin of the universe.

In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years ago in which the first elements were forged. The physical theory of the hot nascent universe—the Big Bang—was one of the most consequential developments in twentieth-century science. And yet it leaves many questions unanswered: Why is the universe so big? Why is it so old? What is the origin of structure in the cosmos? In An Infinity of Worlds, physicist Will Kinney explains a more recent theory that may hold the answers to these questions and even explain the ultimate origins of the universe: cosmic inflation, before the primordial fire of the Big Bang.

Kinney argues that cosmic inflation is a transformational idea in cosmology, changing our picture of the basic structure of the cosmos and raising unavoidable questions about what we mean by a scientific theory. He explains that inflation is a remarkable unification of inner space and outer space, in which the physics of the very large (the cosmos) meets the physics of the very small (elementary particles and fields), closing in a full circle at the first moment of time. With quantum uncertainty its fundamental feature, this new picture of cosmic origins introduces the possibility that the origin of the universe was of a quantum nature. 

Kinney considers the consequences of eternal cosmic inflation. Can we come to terms with the possibility that our entire observable universe is one of infinitely many, forever hidden from our view?

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À propos de l?auteur

Will Kinney is Professor in the Department of Physics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262547228
ISBN 13 
9780262547222
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0262046482 ISBN 13 :  9780262046480
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2022
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