A book about universes - expanding, contracting, oscillating, time-travelling - from the bestselling author of 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know.
A book about universes - expanding, contracting, oscillating, time-travelling - from the bestselling author of 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know.
John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the current Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. His principal area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including The Origin of the Universe; The Universe that Discovered Itself; The Book of Nothing; The Constants of Nature; The Infinite Book- a Short Guide to the Boundless; Timeless and Endless; The Artful Universe Expanded; New Theories of Everything; and Cosmic Imagery.
There can be few better guides to the bewildering array of
potential universes, and none so readable or entertaining
*Independent*
Engrossing... He has a fluent and engaging style of writing and a
good eye for an unusual quotation, and as a popularising historian
of science, he is second to none
*Sunday Times*
A stunning tour of potential universes, introducing us to the
brilliant physicists and mathematicians who first revealed these
startling possibilities... [and] the latest insights that physics
and astronomy have to offer about our own universe
*Guardian*
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