Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/07/1998
ISBN: 9780099959502
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 266g
RRP: £12.99
This classic Big Bang text neatly describes what happened after the bang. Yet, until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the Big Bang Theory still couldn't answer, primarily: If matter can neither be created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? Alan Guth's Inflationary Universe Theory answers these vexing questions. When NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite measured the non-uniformities of the cosmic background radiation for the first time in 1992, the patterns agreed exquisitely with the theory's predictions.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/07/1998
ISBN: 9780099959502
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 266g
RRP: £12.99
Mind-blowing stuff
[Alan Guth's] remarkably lucid account is set to become a seminal text in cosmology...helping us up the learning curve without ever making recourse to unfriendly mathematical equations
[Guth] conveys how science can be an intensely social and interactive activity, and the erratic and fitful way in which new ideas clarify
One of the most fascinating and fundamental fields of human enquiry...handsomely rewards study