Description
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.
Author: Timothy Ferris
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 07/06/1998
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.57w x 0.99d
ISBN13: 9780684838618
ISBN10: 0684838613
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Space Science | Cosmology
- Science | Space Science | Astronomy
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.
Author: Timothy Ferris
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 07/06/1998
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.57w x 0.99d
ISBN13: 9780684838618
ISBN10: 0684838613
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Space Science | Cosmology
- Science | Space Science | Astronomy
About the Author
Timothy Ferris is the bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way (winner of the American Institute of Physics Prize) and The Mind's Sky (named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times), among other books. An emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in San Francisco.