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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Pincock writes about science for The Financial Times . He was previously a science and medicine editor at Reuters. He has written regularly for the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, and The Scientist . Mark Frary is a freelance journalist whose work appears regularly in The Times and many other publications. Klappentext Everything you need for a quick tour of everythingYou are here. How come?Want to discover the physical origin of the universe, but don't have the rest of eternity to read up on it? Want to know what scientists have found out about where you and your planet came from, but without the science blinding you? Most people do: It's a deep part of human nature. Who better than For Dummies to tackle the biggest, strangest, and most wonderful question of them all?Discover:*Early ideas about our universe*The Big Bang and the Big Crunch*Dark matter, string theory, and time travel*Explanations of the unexplainable*If life exists elsewhere Zusammenfassung Everything you need for a quick tour of everything You are here. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 Part I: In the Beginning: Early Ideas About Our Universe 7 Chapter 1: Exploring the Early Universe 9 Chapter 2: Looking Up at the Stars: Early Beliefs 17 Chapter 3: The Apple Drops: Newton, Gravity, and the Rotation of the Planets 27 Part II: Modern Cosmology: Going Off with a Bang 49 Chapter 4: Bending the Universe: Magnets and Gravity 51 Chapter 5: Measuring the Universe 73 Chapter 6: Cooking Up a Big Bang 95 Chapter 7: Letting It Rise: Expanding and Inflating the Universe 107 Chapter 8: Thinking Differently About the Universe 119 Part III: Building Your Own Universe 129 Chapter 9: Building Things from Scratch 131 Chapter 10: Forcing the Pace: The Roles of Natural Forces in the Universe 153 Chapter 11: Shedding Light on Dark Matter and Pinging Strings 169 Chapter 12: Playing with the Universe's Chemistry Set 181 Chapter 13: Making Stars, Solar Systems, Galaxies, and More 197 Chapter 14: Giving Birth to Life 211 Chapter 15: Travelling Through Time 225 Part IV: Asking the Tough Questions 239 Chapter 16: Explaining the Unexplainable 241 Chapter 17: Finding Life Elsewhere 253 Chapter 18: Coming to an End 265 Part V: The Part of Tens 275 Chapter 19: Ten Different Beliefs about the Origins of the Universe 277 Chapter 20: Ten Greatest Cosmological Advances 285 Appendix: Understanding Scientific Units and Equations 295 Index 303 ...
