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The book of universes : exploring the limits of the cosmos / John D. Barrow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 2011.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xiv, 354 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0393081214 (hbk.)
  • 9780393081213 (hbk.)
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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.
Summary: A tour of the strange and wonderful universes that modern physics posits might--just might--be out there.
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Einstein's theory of general relativity opens the door to other universes, and weird universes at that: universes that allow time travel, universes where you can see the back of your head, universes that spin and bounce or multiply without limit. The Book of Universes gives us a stunning tour of these potential universes, introducing us along the way to the brilliant physicists and mathematicians who first revealed their startling possibilities. John D. Barrow explains the latest discoveries and ideas that physics and astronomy have to offer about our own universe, showing how these findings lead to the concept of the "multiverse"--the Universe of all possible universes. New ideas force us to confront the possibility that our visible universe is a tiny region, governed by its own laws, within a Multiverse containing all the strange universes that could be--an idea that is among the most exciting and revolutionary in all of modern science.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-340) and index.

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.

A tour of the strange and wonderful universes that modern physics posits might--just might--be out there.

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