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Stunning work of popular science that explores the current, cutting-edge scientific race to fully understand how the universe began and how it will end...
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Since A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME scientists have been in the midst of a revolution in cosmology. Gradually, astronomers and physicists are answering questions that have plagued mankind since prehistory: how was the universe born, how will it end? As we are now able to peer ever more closely into the cradle of the universe, so we are increasingly able to envisage its grave. By the middle of this decade, scientists will be able to provide some of the answers. These will be among the greatest triumphs of science. This book tells that story and will reveal results of the most advanced experiments in cosmology ever conducted. It's also an intensely human story - a tale of men solving the insoluble, of the controversy and intense competition and rivalry between individuals and laboratories pursuing the same goal. Even more thrillingly - it is a lucid explanation of new scientific ideas that stretch our powers of understanding to their highest levels, and beyond.
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This review is from: Alpha And Omega: The Search For The Beginning And The End Of The Universe (Paperback)
I really enjoyed reading this. Seife continues to use his writing ability and style in a manner that helps you to understand even quite difficult aspects, as in his book Zero. I would say that Zero was more interesting, for me atleast with an interest in mathematics more specifically, but this definitely satisfies the enquiring mind for those who (as some reviews mentioned in the book and in 'Decoding the Universe' says) have had little or no formal training in the sciences.
Alpha and Omega takes you through the development of our cosmological understanding, from the superstitions and gods of old, through the insights gained in earlier science, and to our modern grasp of our universe. This also makes the historical aspect of the book interesting (again, similar to Zero; just reading about mankind's development is intriguing). It later takes you through pretty much all the fundamental particles of the standard model; how they behave, why they are required, and how they were discovered - and even onto future implications, pondering the effects of the next cosmological revolution. There is some repetition of ideas, examples and illustrations that were used in Zero, so some of the material will be familiar to those who have read it, moreso in the early sections of the book. Overall, it is a very good read, as well as the writing style.
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