The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins

ISBN-13: 9780099959502 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 384 str.

Alan Guth

Opis

The classic Big Bang theory describes what happened after the bang. Guth looks at the questions the theory can't answer, such as - if matter can neither be created or destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all?

Recenzje

Mind-blowing stuff Sunday Times

O autorze

Alan Guth, after receiving his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, held positions at Princeton University, Columbia, Cornell and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He is now the V. F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at MIT. He has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in London.