The Unknown Universe: A New Exploration Of Time, Space And Cosmology
by Stuart Clark PhD /
2016 / English / PDF
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A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest
deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know -
and what we don't.
A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest
deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know -
and what we don't.
On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of
the afterglow of the big bang. Taking in 440 sextillion
kilometers of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is
physically impossible to make a better map: We will never see the
early universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is
the apotheosis of modern cosmology; on the other, it threatens to
undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct.
The map contains anomalies that challenge our understanding of
the universe. It will force us to revisit what is known and what
is unknown, to construct a new model of our universe.
On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of
the afterglow of the big bang. Taking in 440 sextillion
kilometers of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is
physically impossible to make a better map: We will never see the
early universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is
the apotheosis of modern cosmology; on the other, it threatens to
undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct.
The map contains anomalies that challenge our understanding of
the universe. It will force us to revisit what is known and what
is unknown, to construct a new model of our universe.
This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining
scientific paradigm shift. Stuart Clark will ask if Newton's
famous laws of gravity need to be rewritten, if dark matter and
dark energy are just celestial phantoms. Can we ever know what
happened before the big bang? What's at the bottom of a black
hole? Are there universes beyond our own? Does time exist? Are
the once immutable laws of physics changing?
This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining
scientific paradigm shift. Stuart Clark will ask if Newton's
famous laws of gravity need to be rewritten, if dark matter and
dark energy are just celestial phantoms. Can we ever know what
happened before the big bang? What's at the bottom of a black
hole? Are there universes beyond our own? Does time exist? Are
the once immutable laws of physics changing?