Niayesh Afshordi: Battle of the Big Bang

Cover: 9780226830476 | Battle of the Big Bang | The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins | Buch

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Beschreibung

"A thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and reality. By most popular accounts, the universe started with a bang some 13.8 billion years ago. But what happened before the Big Bang? Here prominent cosmologist Niayesh Afshordi and science communicator Phil Halper offer a tour of the peculiar possibilities: bouncing and cyclic universes, time loops, creations from nothing, multiverses, black hole births, string theories, and holograms. Along the way, they offer both a call for new physics and a riveting story of scientific debate. Incorporating Afshordi's cutting-edge research and insights from Halper's original interviews with scientists like Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, and Alan Guth, Battle of the Big Bang compares these models for the origin of our origins, showing each theory's strengths and weaknesses and explaining new attempts to test these theories. Battle of the Big Bang is a tale of rivalries and intrigue, of clashes of ideas that have raged from Greek antiquity to the present day over whether the universe is eternal or had a beginning, whether it is unique or one of many. But most of all, Afshordi and Halper show that this search is filled with wonder, discovery, and community-all essential for remembering a forgotten cosmic past"--

Über den Autor

Niayesh Afshordi is professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and associate faculty at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada. His prizewinning research focuses on competing models for the early universe, dark energy, dark matter, black holes, holography, and gravitational waves. He has contributed to Scientific American and was a consultant to PBS's NOVA, and his work has been featured in numerous popular media outlets, such as the covers of Scientific American and Science, as well as in The Guardian and The New York Times.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Importe , Physik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9780226830476
ISBN-10:	0226830470
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Afshordi, Niayesh
Hersteller:	University of Chicago Pr.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	237 x 155 x 31 mm
Von/Mit:	Niayesh Afshordi
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.05.2025
Gewicht:	0,7 kg

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