The Whole Shebang : The State of the Universe Report

Ferris, Timothy

ISBN 10: 0684810204 / ISBN 13: 9780684810201

Edité par First edition, published by Simon & Schuster, New York,1997., Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1997

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Very good with very good dust jacket. Purchase price and place of purchase written across top of front fly leaf. Name on front endpaper. Dust jacket is lightly bumped at spine tips and corners. 393 pages with index.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Whole Shebang : The State of the Universe Report
• Éditeur: First edition, published by Simon & Schuster, New York,1997., Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0684810204
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780684810201
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

A non-technical account of recent astronomical research makes all that is known about the universe accessible to the average reader, in a study that integrates scientific personalities with hard facts, vivid explanations, and authoritative speculation.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.