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The vindication of the Big Bang
Is the Big Bang Theory more viable today than it was at its inception 70 years ago? The prolific and ever-curious author, Barry Parker, confronts the most controversial and significant debate of modern cosmology. Big Bang bashing has been indulged in…
Our cosmic habitat
Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic, '' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous…
Cosmic Connections
In 1973, Carl Sagan published The Cosmic Connection, a daring view of the universe, which rapidly became a classic work of popular science and inspired a generation of scientists and enthusiasts. This seminal work is reproduced here for a whole new…
Afterglow of creation
Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that was identified as the afterglow of the big bang had to admit that it was more by accident than…
Huble: a new window to the universe
At last, a book presenting the fantastic achievements of the first five years of the Hubble Space Telescope observations! While a number of books for the general public emphasise the technological accomplishments of this multi-billion dollar project…
The search for infinity
The Search for Infinity explains the great discoveries, from the structure of the Universe to the most fundamental particles. It looks at the vast power of the latest particle accelerators that has uncovered the inner world of atoms. It takes us on…
On a perdu la moitié de l'univers
Les observations du télescope spatial Hubble ont brouillé les cartes. En effet, les nouvelles mesures qu'elles ont permises impliquent que les galaxies seraient plus jeunes que les étoiles qu'elles contiennent ! Comment résoudre un tel dilemme…
The universe at midnight
Technology provides us with the means to look further out at the universe from our corner of it than we had ever dreamed possible. "The Universe at Midnight" tells the story of 20th-century cosmology. In this jargon-free guide to the awesome, Ken…
The edge of infinity
Beyond the Black Hole: Naked Singularities and the Destruction of Spacetime.
Originally published in 1981, this book provides readers with an introduction to the physics of the black hole, the focus of Stephen Hawking's research and one of the most…
The cosmic blueprint
Scientists have just begun to understand how complexity and organization can emerge from featurelessness and chaos. Is the way the universe is now in some sense predetermined? Is there, in other words, a "cosmic blueprint"? This book argues in favour…