How the Universe Got Its Spots : : Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space / / Janna Levin.
Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity? In startling and beautiful prose, Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated ac...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 68 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE TO THE 2023 EDITION
- 1 IS THE UNIVERSE INFINITE OR IS IT JUST REALLY BIG?
- 2 INFINITY
- 3 NEWTON, 300 YEARS AND EINSTEIN
- 4 SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- 5 GENERAL RELATIVITY
- 6 QUANTUM CHANCE AND CHOICE
- 7 DEATH AND BLACK HOLES
- 8 LIFE AND THE BIG BANG
- 9 BEYOND EINSTEIN
- 10 ADVENTURES IN FLATLAND AND HYPERSPACE
- 11 TOPOLOGY: LINKS, LOCKS, LOOPS
- 12 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
- 13 WONDERLAND IN 3D
- 14 MIRRORS IN THE SKY
- 15 HOW THE UNIVERSE GOT ITS SPOTS
- 16 THE ULTIMATE PREDICTION
- 17 SCARS OF CREATION
- 18 THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
- EPILOGUE
- INDEX