At the Edge of Time (eBook)

Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds

Dan Hooper (Autor)

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2019
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19700-5 (ISBN)

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A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang-and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universeScientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: we still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. At the Edge of Time focuses on what we have recently learned and are still striving to understand about this most essential and mysterious period of time at the beginning of cosmic history.Delving into the remarkable science of cosmology, Dan Hooper describes many of the extraordinary and perplexing questions that scientists are asking about the origin and nature of our world. Hooper examines how we are using the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments to re-create the conditions of the Big Bang and test promising theories for how and why our universe came to contain so much matter and so little antimatter. We may be poised to finally discover how dark matter was formed during our universe's first moments, and, with new telescopes, we are also lifting the veil on the era of cosmic inflation, which led to the creation of our world as we know it.Wrestling with the mysteries surrounding the initial moments that followed the Big Bang, At the Edge of Time presents an accessible investigation of our universe and its origin.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Science Essentials
• Reihe/Serie: Science Essentials
• Zusatzinfo: 11 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Schlagworte: acceleration • advisory board • Alexander Friedmann • Andromeda Galaxy • Animal Navigation • Antimatter • Antiproton • Astronomer • Astronomy • astrophysics • Atomic Nucleus • Big Bang • Black Hole • Calculation • Chronology of the universe • Copyright • Cosmic microwave background • Cosmic Ray • cosmological constant • dark energy • Dimension • earth • Einstein Field Equations • electric charge • electromagnetism • Energy • Energy Density • forms of energy • Galactic Center • Galaxy cluster • Gamma ray • General relativity • Geometry • George Gamow • Gluon • Gravitational Wave • Gravity • Hidden sector • Higgs boson • Hubble's law • Inflation (cosmology) • Instant • James Kasting • James L. Gould • Jeremiah P. Ostriker • Katherine Freese • Lepton • light-year • mathematician • Measurement • Medea hypothesis • Melting • Metric expansion of space • microwave • milky way • Modern Physics • Molecule • Muon • Neutrino • Neutron • neutron star • nuclear fusion • observable universe • Particle accelerator • Particle physics • phase transition • Photon • Physical law • physicist • planetary habitability • positron • Prediction • Quantity • quantum field theory • Quantum Gravity • quantum mechanics • Quark • Radio Telescope • Radio Wave • Richard Feynman • Scientist • Simon Mitton • standard model • String Theory • Supermassive Black Hole • Supernova • Superpartner • Supersymmetry • Technology • telescope • Temperature • theoretical physics • Theory of relativity • Time • Top Quark • Trillionth • Universe • Universe Today • Weakly interacting massive particles • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19700-8 / 0691197008
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19700-5 / 9780691197005