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The origins of the future : ten questions for the next ten years / John Gribbin.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gribbin, John, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmology--Miscellanea.
- Cosmology.
- Evolution--Miscellanea.
- Evolution.
- Life--Origin.
- Life.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 292 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Gribbin focuses on ten controversial, unanswered issues in the physical sciences and explains how current cutting-edge research may yield solutions in the very near future. He explores ideas concerning the creation of the universe, the possibility of other forms of life, and the fate of the expanding cosmos.
- Contents:
- How do we know the things we think we know?
- Is there a theory of everything?
- How did the universe begin?
- How did the early universe develop?
- Why is the universe the way it is?
- What is it that holds the universe together?
- Where did the chemical elements come from?
- Where did the solar system come from?
- Where did life originate?
- How will it all end?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300119984
- 9780300119985
- OCLC:
- 66526985
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- Publisher description
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