Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others - Softcover

Rees, Martin J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684816601 ISBN 13: 9780684816609

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1998

Synopsis

Argues that the universe is just one element in an infinite ensemble, where impassable barriers prohibit communication between the islands. The text goes on to posit the theory that every universe starts with a big bang, then acquires a distinctive imprint and its own laws of physics.

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Review

'The real stuff of astronomy -- written by the best authority' --Stephen Hawking 'Mind-stretching... Equipped with little more than an inquiring mind, the reader can accompany this expert guide across the length and breadth of our universe, backwards and forwards in time, to find out just what cosmologists nowadays do and don't know' SUNDAY TIMES 'Masterly... I cannot think of a more civilised and stimulating way to escape from the mundane concerns of everyday life than to read BEFORE THE BEGINNING' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Fascinating... A highly accessible book... Sir Martin Rees does much to persuade us that the cosmos might well be even more spectacular than we could have imagined' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'If you haven't read a single cosmology book, this is a good place to start' NEW SCIENTIST 'This is the book for those who read A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME and were still left wondering whether they quite had the whole picture' GUARDIAN

About the Author

Professor Sir Martin Rees is currently a Royal Society Research Professor and Astronomer Royal. Though based at Cambridge University, he travels extensively and collaborates with many colleagues in the USA and elsewhere.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684816601
• ISBN 13: 9780684816609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288