At the edge of time -- A world of time and space -- A world without a beginning? -- Glimpses of the big bang -- The universe and the accelerator -- The origins of everything -- Hearts of darkness -- A beacon in the dark? -- Radically rethinking dark matter -- A flash in time -- …
"A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang--and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universe. Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion yea…
This book is written from the viewpoint of a deep connection between cosmology and particle physics. It presents the results and ideas on both the homogeneous and isotropic Universe at the hot stage of its evolution and in later stages. The main chapters describe in a systematic…