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Perfect Symmetry. The Search for the Beginning of Time

By Heinz R. Pagels

Book information

Publisher
Bantam
Year
1991
ISBN
0553352547, 9780553352542
LCC
QB981 .P25 1990
Open Library ID
OL1849293M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3939125 bytes)
Pages
460\460
Topic
Physics Astronomy
Library
Techlib
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13
Физика;Астрономия и астрофизика

Description

Popular science at its best, this acclaimed classic work describes in stunning detail how cutting-edge discoveries in quantum physics and cosmology are helping to explain the origin and evolution of the universe, of space and time. Perfect Symmetry is an optimistic report about the ongoing synthesis of these two disciplines into a concerted effort to uncover the fundamental laws that not only describe how the stuff that makes up the universe -- matter and energy -- came into existence but also govern the behavior of the smallest and largest things, from subatomic particles to stars, galaxies, and the universe itself. Written by that rarest of scientists -- one who is esteemed by his peers yet capable of making the most complex ideas comprehensible to laymen -- Perfect Symmetry is an enthralling intellectual adventure, science that reads like art.

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