John Brockman

The Universe (eBook, ePUB)

Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explore the universe with today's greatest physicists.

In the wake of one of the most groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs in modern times, the March 2014 discovery of gravitational ripples from the Big Bangan apparent confirmation of Alan Guth and Andrei Linde's theory of cosmic inflationJohn Brockman of Edge.org has gathered together some of the world's best minds to explain the universe as we currently know it. The contributorsmany pioneering theoretical physicists and cosmologists, including Guth and Lindeprovide an extraordinary picture of cosmology as it has developed over the past three decades.

• Alan Guth and Andrei Linde explain the Inflationary Universe theory.
• Lee Smolin discusses the nature of time.
• Lisa Randall and Neil Turok elaborate on the theory of branes, two-dimensional structures arising from string theorywhose existence is central to the cyclic universe.
• Seth Lloyd investigates how the universe behaves like a self-programming computer.
• Lawrence Krauss provides fresh insight into gravity, dark matter, and the energy of empty space.
• Brian Greene and Einstein biographer Walter Isaacson speculate on how Albert Einstein might view the theoretical physics of the twenty-first century.
• The late Benoit Mandelbrot looks back on a long career devoted to fractal geometry.
• Plus Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek, Astronomer Royal MaRtin Rees, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll, Stanford's Leonard Susskind, Oxford's David Deutsch, Cornell's Steven Strogatz, Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton Paul Steinhardt, and more!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062296092
• Artikelnr.: 41076251

Autorenporträt

The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.

Rezensionen

"Illuminating, mind-expanding. ... A spectacular, mind-bending read. " Brain Pickings