Exploring the Universe

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There are few topics more awe-inspiring than cosmology. What is the universe? How does it work? Where did it come from? These fundamental questions intrigue adults and children alike. This accessible guide brings alive humanity's attempts to explain the existence of everything and explores the latest and best theories on how the universe came into being. With approachable text, assuming no previous knowledge, uniquely in such an illustrated book, the reader is taken beyond the certainties to explore the strange concepts that fill modern cosmology. Is the universe a hologram? Is everything we know part of a membrane floating in multidimensional space? Could we be living in a computer simulation? It sounds like science fiction, but these are among the ideas cosmologists seriously propose for the nature of reality. Exploring the Universe is for students, amateur astronomers, and anyone who has looked up at the sky and wondered about our place in the universe. Contents: Introduction Where did we come from? Music of the spheres Building blocks Our neighbourhood A growing space A bang or a whimper How do we know? Most of our universe is missing Cosmic oddities: Just a theory The ultimate question
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AuthorLegg, Brian
PublisherVivays
PlaceLondon
Year2012
Edition1
ISBN9781908126160
BindingHardcover
ConditionGood
Dustjacket ConditionGood
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