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Book

The unknown universe : a new exploration of time, space, and cosmology

Call Number

  • 523.1 C5953 (CEN)

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Edition

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Pegasus Books, 2016.

Physical Description

303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know―and what we don't. This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining scientific paradigm shift. Stuart Clark will ask if Newton's famous laws of gravity need to be rewritten; if dark matter and dark energy are just celestial phantoms? Can we ever know what happened before the Big Bang? What’s at the bottom of a black hole? Are there universes beyond our own? Does time exist? Are the once immutable laws of physics changing?

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-293) and index.

Contents

  • The day we saw the universe
  • The architect of the universe
  • Selene's secrets
  • Gravity's crucible
  • The stellar bestiary
  • Holes in the universe
  • The luxuriant garden
  • Chiaroscuro
  • The day without yesterday
  • Timescapes and multiverses
  • Solving the singularity.

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