In Search of the Big Bang: The Life and Death of the UniverseWhere do we come from? How did the universe of stars, planets and people come into existence? Now revised and expanded, this second edition takes into account developments in cosmology and quantum physics since its first publication in 1986, and traces the historical path which has led physicists to an understanding of the big bang, the fireball in which our universe was born. |
Contents
The Arrow of Time | 1 |
The supreme law | 2 |
Light and thermodynamics | 6 |
Copyright | |
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