The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains to general readers what happened when the universe began, and how we know.
This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains to general readers what happened when the universe began, and how we know.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780465024377 (0465024378)
ASIN: 465024378
Publish date: August 18th 1993
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth...”“Can we leave out God and just say that, in the beginning, the Universe got created?”“NO!”“Oh well, leave it in for now. Let's continue.”The rest of this review is in my book If Research Were Romance and Other Implausible Conjectures
Weinberg's classic of cosmology still reads well, even if it is a bit dated. This is not a book for the lay person, though. The book is filled with complicated and rigorous mathematical formalisms and has an appendix that doesn't' shy away from the quantitative work that went into reconstructing the...