A little book about the big bang

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"Tony Rothman offers a primer on the science of the big bang and the questions we still can't answer about the origins of the universe. Enlisting thoughtful analogies and a step-by-step approach, Rothman guides readers through dark matter, dark energy, quantum gravity, and other topics at-and beyond-the cutting edge of cosmology"--

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Full title :A little book about the big bang / Tony Rothman.

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Publication Date:©2022

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Publisher(s):The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

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Description:1 online resource (viii, 225 pages ): : illustrations.

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ISBN:9780674276314, 0674276310
oclc:on1305095704
LC Classification:QB991.B54
Dewey Decimal:523.1/8

Gravity, pumpkins, and cosmology -- A special theory -- General relativity, the basis of cosmology -- The expanding universe -- Cosmology's Rosetta Stone: the cosmic background radiation -- The primeval cauldron -- Dark universe -- Darker universe -- Galaxies exist and so do we -- The universal pipe organ -- The first blink: cosmic inflation -- To inflate or not to inflate -- Crunches and bounces -- Why quantum gravity? -- Multiverses and metaphysics.