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Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe
What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second Copernican revolution: neither our Earth and Sun, nor our galaxy, nor even our universe, are the end of all things. Beyond our world, in an endless multiverse, are innumerable other universes, coming and going, like ours or different. Fourteen billion years ago, one of the many bubbles constantly appearing and vanishing in the multiverse exploded to form our universe. The energy liberated in the explosion provided the basis for all the matter our universe now contains. But how could this hot, primordial plasma eventually produce the complex structure of our present world? Does not order eventually always lead to disorder, to an increase of entropy? Modern cosmology is beginning to find out how it all came about and where it all might lead. Before Time Began tells that story.
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Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe
What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second Copernican revolution: neither our Earth and Sun, nor our galaxy, nor even our universe, are the end of all things. Beyond our world, in an endless multiverse, are innumerable other universes, coming and going, like ours or different. Fourteen billion years ago, one of the many bubbles constantly appearing and vanishing in the multiverse exploded to form our universe. The energy liberated in the explosion provided the basis for all the matter our universe now contains. But how could this hot, primordial plasma eventually produce the complex structure of our present world? Does not order eventually always lead to disorder, to an increase of entropy? Modern cosmology is beginning to find out how it all came about and where it all might lead. Before Time Began tells that story.
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Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe

Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe

by Helmut Satz
Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe
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Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe

Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe

by Helmut Satz

Overview

What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second Copernican revolution: neither our Earth and Sun, nor our galaxy, nor even our universe, are the end of all things. Beyond our world, in an endless multiverse, are innumerable other universes, coming and going, like ours or different. Fourteen billion years ago, one of the many bubbles constantly appearing and vanishing in the multiverse exploded to form our universe. The energy liberated in the explosion provided the basis for all the matter our universe now contains. But how could this hot, primordial plasma eventually produce the complex structure of our present world? Does not order eventually always lead to disorder, to an increase of entropy? Modern cosmology is beginning to find out how it all came about and where it all might lead. Before Time Began tells that story.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780192510877
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 09/13/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Helmut Satz is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at the University of Bielefeld in Germany, where his research focuses on thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter. He served on the staff of CERN in 1989-1995 and Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1985-1992.

Table of Contents

1. Before the Big Bang
2. The First Particles
3. Empty Space
4. Transitions
5. The Light of the Big Bang
6. Structure and Form
7. Dark Corners
8. The End of Time
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