Book description
An accessible look at the mysteries that lurk at the edge of the
known universe and beyond
The observable universe, the part we can see with telescopes, is
incredibly vast. Yet recent theories suggest that there is far more to
the universe than what our instruments record-in fact, it could be
infinite. Colossal flows of galaxies, large empty regions called
voids, and other unexplained phenomena offer clues that our own
"bubble universe" could be part of a greater realm called
the multiverse. How big is the observable universe? What it is made
of? What lies beyond it? Was there a time before the Big Bang? Could
space have unseen dimensions? In this book, physicist and science
writer Paul Halpern explains what we knowÂ-and what we hope to soon
find outÂ-about our extraordinary cosmos.
- Explains what we know about the Big Bang, the accelerating
universe, dark energy, dark flow, and dark matter to examine some
of the theories about the content of the universe and why its edge
is getting farther away from us faster
- Explores the idea that the observable universe could be a
hologram and that everything that happens within it might be
written on its edge
- Written by physicist and popular science writer Paul Halpern,
whose other books include Collider: The Search for the World's
Smallest Particles, and What's Science Ever Done For Us:
What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and
the Universe
PAUL HALPERN, PhD, is Professor of Physics at the University of
the Sciences in Philadelphia. He is the 2002 recipient of a John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, awarded for research that
ultimately resulted in the book The Great Beyond: Higher
Dimensions, Parallel Universes and the Extraordinary Search for a
Theory of Everything. He is also the author of Collider: The
Search for the World's Smallest Particles and What's Science
Ever Done for Us?: What The Simpsons Can Teach Us about Physics,
Robots, Life, and the Universe.
