The Unknown Universe
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The Unknown Universe

A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology

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The Unknown Universe

A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology

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About This Book

A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know—and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology, on the other, it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct.The map contains anomalies that challenge our understanding of the universe. It will force us to revisit what is known and what is unknown, to construct a new model of our universe. This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining scientific paradigm shift. Stuart Clark will ask if Newton's famous laws of gravity need to be rewritten; if dark matter and dark energy are just celestial phantoms? Can we ever know what happened before the Big Bang? What's at the bottom of a black hole? Are there universes beyond our own? Does time exist? Are the once immutable laws of physics changing?

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2016
ISBN
9781681771939
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Space Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction: The Day We Saw the Universe
  5. 1. The Architect of the Universe
  6. 2. Selene’s Secrets
  7. 3. Gravity’s Crucible
  8. 4. The Stellar Bestiary
  9. 5. Holes in the Universe
  10. 6. The Luxuriant Garden
  11. 7. Chiaroscuro
  12. 8. The Day without Yesterday
  13. 9. Timescapes and Multiverses
  14. 10. Solving the Singularity
  15. Further Reading
  16. Image Credits
  17. Index
  18. Also by Stuart Clark, Ph.D.
  19. Copyright