Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others - Softcover

Rees, Martin J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684816822 ISBN 13: 9780684816821

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

It is now widely accepted that our universe exploded around 15 billion years ago. As the primordial material expanded and cooled, it evolved into the patterns of stars and galaxies now observed. Professor Rees argues that a family of universes could have been created through a similar process.

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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: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684816822
• ISBN 13: 9780684816821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288