Research Catalog

Title

After the beginning : a cosmic journey through space and time / Norman K. Glendenning.

Author

Glendenning, Norman K.

Publication

London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore : World Scientific, c2004.

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Details

Description

xvii, 208 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Summary

"In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere, creating space where there was no space and time where there was no time. In the intense fire just after the beginning, the lightest elements were forged, later to form primordial clouds that eventually evolved into galaxies, stars, and planets. This evolution is the story told in this fascinating book. Interwoven with the storyline are short pieces on the pioneering men and women who revealed those wonders to us."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Cosmic journey through space and time

Subject

Cosmology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Island universes -- 2. large and the small -- 3. Big Bang -- 4. Elementary particles -- fundamental forces -- 5. primeval fireball -- 6. Galaxy clusters, galaxies, and stars -- 7. future universe.

ISBN

• 1860944477
• 1860944485 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library