A Little Book about the Big Bang /

A Little Book about the Big Bang / / Tony Rothman.

A concise introduction to the greatest questions of modern cosmology.What came before the big bang? How will the universe evolve into the future? Will there be a big crunch? Questions like these have no definitive answers, but there are many contending theories. In A Little Book about the Big Bang,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Rothman, Tony,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Also by Tony Rothman
  • Introduction
  • 1. Gravity, Pumpkins, and Cosmology
  • 2. A Special Theory
  • 3. General Relativity, the Basis of Cosmology
  • 4. The Expanding Universe
  • 5. Cosmology’s Rosetta Stone: The Cosmic Background Radiation
  • 6. The Primeval Cauldron
  • 7. Dark Universe
  • 8. Darker Universe
  • 9. Galaxies Exist and So Do We
  • 10. The Universal Pipe Organ
  • 11. The First Blink: Cosmic Inflation
  • 12. To Inflate or Not to Inflate
  • 13. Crunches and Bounces
  • 14. Why Quantum Gravity?
  • 15. Multiverses and Metaphysics
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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