Our Cosmic Habitat (Princeton Science Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071FPJ7HL |
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| Number of Pages | : | 594 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Compact book, fast reading This is the first book by Martin Rees I have read, and I like it.He created very brief (about 200 pages only) but surprisingly complete picture of modern cosmology and scientific fields related to it.After reading Alan Guth, Donald Goldsmith, Stephen Hawking and Igor Novikov, this book greatly summarizes and he. The current universe knowledge explained As a non-scientist, the universe has always mystified me. This book doesn't have all the answers, but it does convey a lot of useful information in a clear and readable form. I hope the author is correct in his prediction that within the decade the space telescopes and ground accelerators may unlock even more f. you your stars Martin Rees knows how to write for the general public, which is not an easy feat for a hard-core scientist. I just enjoyed the reading, and am looking for more Martin Rees' books.
Rees, Great Britain's Astronomer Royal and the author of Just Six Numbers: The Forces That Shape the Universe, is a sure guide to the science that illuminates these mysteries, from quantum mechanics to cosmology. From Publishers Weekly The cosmos depicted in this fascinating exploration of astrophysics, now in paperback, is mind-boggling-vast and old and full of supernovae, black holes and mysterious dark matter. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. If the laws of nature had been configured just a bit differently-if gravity were slightly stronger, the electron a smidgen heavier, the
He asks, for example: How likely is life? How credible is the Big Bang theory? Rees then peers into the long-range cosmic future before tracing the causal chain backward to the beginning. What we call the laws of nature would then be no more than local bylaws, imposed in the aftermath of our own Big Bang. He concludes by trying to untangle the paradoxical notion that our entire universe, stretching 10 billion light-years in all directions, emerged from an infinitesimal speck.As Rees argues, we may already have intimations of other universes. But the fate of the multiverse concept depends on the still-unknown bedrock nature of space and time on scales a trillion trillion times smaller than atoms, in the realm governed by the quantum physics of gravity. Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Expanding our comprehension of the cosmos, Our Cosmic Habitat will be read and enjoyed by all those--scientists and nonscientists alike--who are as fascinated by the universe we inhabit as is the author himself.. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer