Book
The book of universes : exploring the limits of the cosmos
Edition
1st American ed.
Publication Information
New York : W.W. Norton, 2011.
Physical Description
xiv, 354 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
An unforgettable tour of the strange and wonderful universes that modern physics posits might-just might-be out there.
Contents
- Being in the right place at the right time
- The earnestness of being important
- Einstein's universes
- Unexpected universes : the Rococo period
- Something completely different
- The steady statesmen come and go with a bang
- Universes, warts and all
- The beginning for beginners
- Brave new worlds
- Post-modern universes
- Fringe universes
- The runaway universe.