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Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds
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Dan Hooper
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A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang - and how continuing research into these moments may transform cosmology and physics
Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: We still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. At the Edge of Time focuses on what we have recently learned and are still striving to understand about this most essential and mysterious period of time at the beginning of cosmic history.
Taking listeners into the remarkable world of cosmology, Dan Hooper describes many of the extraordinary and perplexing questions that scientists are asking about the origin and nature of our world. Hooper examines how we are using the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments to re-create the conditions of the Big Bang and test promising theories for how and why our universe came to contain so much matter and so little antimatter. We may be poised to finally discover how dark matter was formed during our universe's first moments, and, with new telescopes, we are also lifting the veil on the era of cosmic inflation, which led to the creation of our world as we know it.
Wrestling with the mysteries surrounding the initial moments that followed the Big Bang, At the Edge of Time presents an accessible investigation of our universe and its origin.
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We know the universe had a beginning. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life as we know it. But what happens to the universe at the end of the story? And what does it mean for us now?
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My New Favorite!
- De Hannah Crazyhawk en 08-16-20
De: Katie Mack
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The Little Book of Black Holes
- Science Essentials
- De: Steven S. Gubser, Frans Pretorius
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality - a viewpoint many shared. After introducing the basics of the special and general theories of relativity, this book describes black holes both as astrophysical objects and theoretical "laboratories".
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Great read/listen
- De william en 01-24-18
De: Steven S. Gubser, y otros
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The Story of Earth
- The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
- De: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national best-selling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere - of rocks and living matter - has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
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Makes minerals interesting
- De Gary en 07-31-12
De: Robert M. Hazen
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Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- The Hidden 95% of the Universe
- De: Brian Clegg
- Narrado por: Mark Cameron
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
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All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial five per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart, but something concealed holds them together. That ’something' is dark matter - invisible material in five times the quantity of the familiar stuff of stars and planets.
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Breezy style, but some painful pronunciation
- De Gordon M. en 02-06-22
De: Brian Clegg
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The Quantum Universe
- (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)
- De: Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
- Narrado por: Samuel West
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible - and fascinating - to everyone.The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw's contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way.
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Not suitable as an audio book
- De SPN en 03-29-22
De: Brian Cox, y otros
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Waves in an Impossible Sea
- How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
- De: Matt Strassler
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind beats against our faces. Yet our planet hurtles through the cosmos at 150 miles per second, and we feel nothing of it. How can our voyage be so tranquil when, as Einstein discovered, matter warps space, and space deflects matter? The answer, Strassler reveals, is that empty space is a sea, albeit a paradoxically strange one.
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- De Mark en 01-14-25
De: Matt Strassler
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- James S.
- 03-10-23
Good overview of cosmology, great delivery
If you're looking for significant conceptual depth in regards to cosmological physics, you may end up disappointed here. But what it lacks in depth, I think it mostly makes up in breadth and delivery.
The writing and narration are both excellent, IMHO.
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- Hans Schmidt
- 05-11-23
Intriguing
Am intriguing exploration of our universe’s first moment, how these theories evolved, and some of what that means for us.
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