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From the formation of the universe to the theory of matter to life on earth, Richard Morris delivers a clear and concise picture of what we know, how we know it, and what the limits to future knowledge might be. Morris begins by discussing various ideas about the ultimate destiny of the universe: whether it will continue expanding or eventually collapse. Next he addresses the search for a unified theory of matter that will encompass the four known forces in nature: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Finally, Morris looks at the origin of life. Once conditions were hospitable, life evolved on Earth almost immediately. But how? With wit and insight Morris takes the reader on a tour through some of the more profound aspects of contemporary science.
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The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything : What We Know and How We Know It
author
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Morris, Richard.
publisher
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Four Walls Eight Windows
isbn10 | asin
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1568581408
print isbn13
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9781568581408
ebook isbn13
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9780585240800
language
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English
subject
Cosmology, Unified field theories, Life--Origin.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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QB981.M8635 1999eb
ddc
:
523.1
subject
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Cosmology, Unified field theories, Life--Origin.
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The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything
What We Know and How We Know It
Richard Morris
FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS New York London
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Copyright 1999 Richard Morris
Published in the United States by Four Walls Eight Windows 39 West 14th Street New York, NY 10011 http://www.fourwallseightwindows.com
UK offices: Four Walls Eight Windows/Turnaround Unit 3 Olympia Trading Estate Coburg Road, Wood Green London N22 67Z
First printing October 1999.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a database or other retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA: Morris, Richard, 1939 The universe, the eleventh dimension, and everything: what we know and how we know it / Richard Morris. p. cm.. Includes index. ISBN 1-56858-140-8 (pbk.) 1. Cosmology. 2. Unified field theories. 3. LifeOrigin. I. Title. QB981.M8635 1999 523.1dc21 99-37643 CIP
Printed in Canada
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CONTENTS
What We Know and How We Know It
1
Part 1: Cosmic Evolution
Preface
11
Chapter 1: The Beginning
14
Chapter 2: When the Universe Was One Second Old
27
Chapter 3: The Creation of Life
42
Chapter 4: The Fate of the Universe
56
Chapter 5: Universes without End, or the Cosmos Is a Big Nothing
70
Part 2: The Search for a Theory of Matter
Prelude: "Was It a God That Wrote These Signs?"
79
Chapter 1: Too Many Particles
87
Interlude: Einstein's Unified Field Theory
104
Chapter 2: The Hunting of the Quark
112
Chapter 3: Superstrings and Other Entanglements
125
Epilogue
136
Part 3: The Scientific Imagination
Foreword
141
Chapter 1: Intuitions of a Deeper Reality
144
Chapter 2: How to Tell What Is Science from What Isn't Science
169
Chapter 3: When the World Changed
192
Chapter 4: Platonists and Kantians
208
Appendix
226
Index
229
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WHAT WE KNOW AND HOW WE KNOW IT
During the last few years, there has been a series of exciting new discoveries in the fields of cosmology and particle physics, and scientists are at last beginning to understand the origin and evolution of the universe and the basic constituents of matter. These discoveries have been accompanied by a great deal of speculation. Scientists try not only to determine what is true, they also try to discover what might be true. Naturally there is nothing wrong with speculating in this manner. Before one can tell what the cosmos and the microworld are like, it is necessary to find out what the possibilities are.
Scientific knowledge has increased at such a rapid rate that some of this speculation has become quite astonishing. For example, scientists now have direct empirical evidence about the nature of the universe back to a time of about one second after the beginning of the big bang. This has led them to develop detailed theories about what might have been happening during that first second. Some have gone even further and have tried to invent plausible scenarios describing the creation of the universe. Others have wondered whether there might not be countless other universes besides our own.
Similarly, scientists have probed so deeply into the basic structure of matter that they are no longer content with discovering new subatomic particles and trying to understand their behavior. They are speculating about the nature of reality at an even more microscopic level, and attempting to probe into the very nature of space and time. They have begun to wonder if there might not be more dimensions of space than the three that we know, and have constructed theories about ten- and eleven-dimensional
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