Where the Universe Came From: How Einstein’s relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos - Softcover

New Scientist

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857886666 ISBN 13: 9781857886665

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey, 2017

Synopsis

How did it all begin? Where is it all going?

WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS

A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned centuries of thinking about gravity by revealing how it arises from the curvature of space and time. Yet general relativity has had far greater consequences. It has revealed that our universe has been expanding from a hot dense state called the big bang. It has changed our understanding of space and time. And it predicts that the universe is an extreme place, containing black holes and possibly wormholes.

Using Einstein's insights, today's cosmologists have come to realize that most of the universe is missing in the form of mysterious dark matter and dark energy.

In Where The Universe Came From leading cosmologists and New Scientist explain that while we have made great progress, we still have plenty of unfinished business with the cosmos. How does the dark universe shape our cosmic destiny? What is really happening near black holes? Are we any closer to discovering the ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein? Why is relativity not the final answer?

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About this edition

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1857886666
• ISBN 13: 9781857886665
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208