The State of the Universe
A Primer in Modern Cosmology
$35.98
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2007
Summary
It is science’s last and greatest challenge: fathoming the depths of the night sky. The objective: to crack to cosmic code, to unravel the blueprint for nature’s grandest conception, a machine constructed on an unimaginably vast scale - the Universe itself.
Today’s model of an expanding Universe - the Big Bang cosmology - is actually built on principles derived from a few simple mathematical equations. Gravity-warped space-time, quantum mechanics, the physics of the subatomic - these …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753822562 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753822563 |
| Author: | Pedro Ferreira |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 220g |
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Ferreira does a good job of balancing the likely with the improbable – Financial Times , -
Deeply interesting * Guardian *
Authoritative, accurate, clear and up to date * Independent *
Ferreira does a good job of balancing the likely with the improbable * Financial Times *
A short, clear and logical introduction which assumes no background knowledge and uses simple analogies to explain unfamiliar ideas * Oxford Today *
Pedro Ferreira
Pedro G. Ferreira is a Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a Tutor and Fellow of Oriel College. He studied physics at the Technical University of Lisbon and obtained a doctorate from Imperial College, London in 1995. He was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2000.
Jen Finer is an artist, musician and composer living in London. From 2003 until 2005 he was an artist in residence in the Astrophysics Department at the University of Oxford.
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State Of The Universe (HC Jun 06)
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