27%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Inflationary Universe
Alan H Guth
€ 19.99
€ 14.67
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Inflationary Universe
Paperback. The author, one of the world's foremost cosmologists, sets out to answer the vexed question surrounding the Big Bang Theory: if matter can neither be created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing? This is the story of Guth's quest to understand the origins of the universe. Num Pages: 384 pages, 75. BIC Classification: PGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280.
This classic Big Bang text neatly describes what happened after the bang. Yet, until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the Big Bang Theory still couldn't answer, primarily: If matter can neither be created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? Alan Guth's Inflationary Universe Theory answers these vexing questions. When NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite measured the non-uniformities of the cosmic background radiation for the first time in 1992, the patterns agreed exquisitely with the theory's predictions.
This classic Big Bang text neatly describes what happened after the bang. Yet, until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the Big Bang Theory still couldn't answer, primarily: If matter can neither be created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? Alan Guth's Inflationary Universe Theory answers these vexing questions. When NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite measured the non-uniformities of the cosmic background radiation for the first time in 1992, the patterns agreed exquisitely with the theory's predictions.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099959502
SKU
V9780099959502
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Alan H Guth
Alan Guth, after receiving his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, held positions at Princeton University, Columbia, Cornell and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He is now the V. F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at MIT. He has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and ... Read more
Reviews for The Inflationary Universe
Mind-blowing stuff
Sunday Times
[Alan Guth's] remarkably lucid account is set to become a seminal text in cosmology...helping us up the learning curve without ever making recourse to unfriendly mathematical equations
Literary Review
[Guth] conveys how science can be an intensely social and interactive activity, and the erratic and fitful way in which new ideas clarify ... Read more
Sunday Times
[Alan Guth's] remarkably lucid account is set to become a seminal text in cosmology...helping us up the learning curve without ever making recourse to unfriendly mathematical equations
Literary Review
[Guth] conveys how science can be an intensely social and interactive activity, and the erratic and fitful way in which new ideas clarify ... Read more