'A magnificent challenge to conventional ideas' Financial Times'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It manages to be both challenging and entertaining: it is highly recommended' the Independent '(Greene) send(s) the reader's imagination hurtling through the universe on an...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-02-24

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What happens when the Dalai Lama meets with leading physicists and a historian? This book is the carefully edited record of the fascinating discussions at a Mind and Life conference in which five leading physicists and a historian (David Finkelstein, George Greenstein,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-03-25

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This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2001-08-23

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How was the Universe born? What are Dark Matter and Dark Energy that make up 95% of the cosmos? Are we alone in the immensity of space? This book invites you on an extraordinary journey from our Earth to the edges of the observable universe, passing through the...

Editeur : Editions Advixo
Parution : 2026-01-01
Collection : Mastering in 60 minutes
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Accurate, detailed visual information is all defined in lay language to make it readily accessible to the non-expert. Definitions to scientific terms are given either in the explanation itself, or in the comprehensive glossary.

Editeur : Québec Amérique
Parution : 2012-08-09
Collection : The Visual Guides
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