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The book of universes : exploring the limits of the cosmos / John D. Barrow.
LIBRA QB981 .B2796 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrow, John D., 1952-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmology.
- Physical laws.
- Einstein field equations.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2011.
- Summary:
- A 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393081213
- 0393081214
- OCLC:
- 668194866
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