Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others

Rees, Martin J.

ISBN 10: 0684816822 / ISBN 13: 9780684816821

Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd, London, 1997

About this Item

288 p. Audience: General/trade; Professional and scholarly. Fine in fine dust jacket. general page toning, seems to happen with all copies of this book, nice dustjacket, unclipped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684816822
• ISBN 13: 9780684816821
• Binding: Hard cover
• Edition: First edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

nd its place within a grander scheme, one of the most creative and original of contemporary scientists draws together recent advances in astrophysics and up-to-the-minute research to cast a piercing light on man's place in the cosmos.

Review

"Although we cannot observe them (and they may be forever inaccessible), other universes are a natural expectation from current cosmology. Moreover, many features of our universe that otherwise seem baffling fall into place once we recognize this." Sir Martin Rees, the British Astronomer Royal, gives a vivid, occasionally acid tour of current astrophysics and cosmology, with insights into scientific politics, such as the enormous increase in the cost of the space telescope because of its association with the Space Shuttle. He also offers keen observations on personalities such as Subrahmayan Chandrasekhar and Isaac Newton, Yakov Zeldovich and Albert Einstein. Joseph Silk calls Before the Beginning "an unusual blend of wit, asperity and cosmology ... a combination of clarity and conciseness."