Big Bang The Origin of the Universe

Name: Big Bang The Origin of the Universe
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ISBN: 9780007162215

ISBN-10: 0007162219

ISBN-13: 9780007162215

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Authors: Simon Singh

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A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all time; a skeptical scientist dubbed the maverick theory the Big Bang. In this amazingly comprehensible history of the universe, Simon Singh decodes the mystery behind the Big Bang theory, lading us through the development of one of the most extraordinary, important, and awe-inspiring theories in science.

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Simon Singh was born in Great Britain in 1964 and educated at Imperial College and the University of Cambridge (where he received a Ph. D. in particle physics). He worked at the European Centre for Particle Physics and the BBC's science department. At the BBC, he worked on Tomorrow's World. Singh and John Lynch produced and directed an award-winning documentary on Fermat's Last Theory. He later published a book on the same topic.




In the Beginning: From mythology to cosmology, from prehistory to 1900



Theories of the Universe: How Einstein's theory of gravity hinted at a moment of creation



The Great Debate: How observations of the universe implied a cosmic expansion



Mavericks of the Cosmos: How theory and observation came together to form the Big Bang model



The Paradigm Shift: The battle between rival cosmological theories is finally resolved


Epilogue: What are the outstanding questions for the Big Bang model?


What Is Science?


Glossary


Further Reading


Acknowledgements


Picture Credits


Index