About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
- ISBN-10
- 1439169608
- ISBN-13
- 9781439169605
- Series
- About Time
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-11
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Adam Frank
Description
Offers an explanation for the origin of the universe with new theories from cosmology, including time with no beginning, parallel universes, and eternal inflation.
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