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Sinds Einstein was de 'oerknal' een grens waar geen natuurkundige ook maar in de buurt kon komen. Zelfs voor de algemene relativiteitstheorie geldt dit tijdstip als 'singulariteit', waar berekeningen tekortschieten en de natuurkundige wetmatigheden…

In 1993, Professor Rees was invited by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei to give a series of lectures reviewing the progress of cosmology and its future prospects. Based on those lectures, this volume presents a unique synthesis of our understanding…

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…

How did a single genesis event create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble - here on Earth, and perhaps on other worlds - into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? This book describes the…

Explores the repercussions of recent advances in astrophysics on the understanding of the universe and the possibility of life outside the Milky Way

This illustrated and referenced volume provides an authoritative yet concise study of cosmology. Beginning with elementary aspects, it will lead students on to more advanced concepts, including relativity, cosmic inflation, phase transitions and…

This highly readable introduction to modern physics was written by a giant of quantum mechanics. Gifted with a rare ability to explain complicated scientific concepts to lay readers, Nobel laureate Max Born presents a step-by-step guide to the…

In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality Part-history of the cosmos,…

Dit is de derde, geheel herziene druk van 'Wereldbeeld en theologie van de middeleeuwen tot vandaag' (1973, 2de druk 1974), dat in het Duits en Engels vertaald werd en de Belgische driejaarlijkse staatsprijs voor essay en kritiek verwierf. In zijn…

More than 90 percent of the Universe is unseen, unknown. Ordinary telescopes cannot detect it - nor can radio antennas. Yet there is convincing evidence that it exists - as something called "dark matter". At the same time, recent discoveries about…