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Alpha and Omega is a dispatch from the front lines of the cosmological revolution that is being waged at observatories and laboratories around the world-in Europe, in America, and even in Antarctica--where scientists are actually peering into both the cradle of the universe and its grave. Scientists--including galaxy hunters and microwave eavesdroppers, gravity theorists and atom smashers, all of whom are on the trail of dark matter, dark energy, and the growing inhabitants of the particle zoo-now know how the universe will end and are on the brink of understanding its beginning. Their findings will be among the greatest triumphs of science, even towering above the deciphering of the human genome.
This is the book you need to help understand the frequent front-page headlines heralding dramatic cosmological discoveries. It makes cutting-edge science both crystal clear and wonderfully exciting.
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A wonderfully clear and concise introduction to terms often too loosely bandied about. Seifes armchair approacheschews formal mathematics and welcomes readers unversed in advanced physics. Read this and you can pepper your conversation with terms like flavored neutrino, hubble constant, exotic dark matterwith much greater confidence than before. Guaranteed.
Los Angeles Times
The sort of stuff that makes cosmology fun to read. Its not science fiction. It is the culmination of the best thinking of the best minds in science.
Wisconsin State Journal
A ripped-from-the-headlines guide to cosmology that puts all manner of bizarre phenomenainto a coherent picture of the cosmos.
Astronomy
Reads like a great mysterySeife takes readers on a fascinating journey through historythey will be rewarded with some of the most fascinating insights and discoveries garnered in centuries.
Deseret Morning News
Accessible, elegant.
Yale Alumni Magazine
Seife gives a comprehensive survey of theories of everything from the ancients to the latest discoveries[and] provides lucid explanations of very complicated topics.
Publishers Weekly
Seifes narrative about the fundamentals of cosmology will appeal to both readers basically oblivious to the subject and those that keep up with itfrom the grandstands of popular science literature, at least. This dual appeal stems from the authors exceptional clarity and the convulsions shaking cosmology in recent years. Seifes news about conjectures on the space-time frontier and his solid presentation of established phenomena will fulfill anyneed for a readable introduction to scientific knowledge of the universes origin and destiny.
Booklist
Up-to-date and enthusiastic tour of the new cosmology. Seife presents simple, non-mathematical summaries of critical experiments and observations and the sometimes wild-seeming theories that arise from them. A good summary for the lay reader.
Kirkus Reviews
ALPHA & OMEGA
Charles Seife, a journalist who holds a masters degree in mathematics from Yale University, writes for Science magazine and has also written for New Scientist, Scientific American, The Economist, Wired, The Sciences, and many other publications. His previous book, Zero, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction book and was named a New York Times Notable Book. He lives in Washington, D.C.
The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
[CHARLES SEIFE]
Penguin Books
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First published in the United States of America by Viking 2003 Published in Penguin Books 2004
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Cosmic Gall from Collected Poems 19531993 by John Updike. Copyright 1993 by John Updike. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. The End of the World from Collected Poems 19171982 by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright 1985 by The Estate of Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS : Seife, Charles.
Alpha and omega: the search for the beginning and end of the universe / Charles Seife.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN: 978-1-1012-2148-8
1. Cosmology. 2. Astronomy. I. Title.
QB981.S446 2003523.1dc21 2002044853
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The First Cosmology
The Golden Age of the Gods
The First Cosmological Revolution
The Copernican Theory
The Second Cosmological Revolution
Hubble and the Big Bang
The Third Revolution Begins
The Universe Amok
The Music of the Spheres
The Cosmic Microwave Background
The Dark Universe
Whats the Matter with Matter?
Darker Still
The Enigma of Exotic Dark Matter
The Big Bang in Our Backyard
The Birth of Baryons
The Good Nus
The Exotic Neutrino
Supersymmetry
Fearlessly Framing the Laws of Matter
Seeing the Invisible
MACHOs, WIMPs, and Illuminating the Darkest Regions of the Universe
The Deepest Mystery in Physics
, the Vacuum, and Inflation
Wrinkles in Spacetime
Gravitational Waves and the Early Universe
Beyond the Third Revolution
Voyage to the Ends of Time
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Tired Light Retired
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Where Does Matter Come From?
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Nobel Prizes in PhysicsPast and Future
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Some Experiments to Watch
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
R EVELATION 22:13
T en billion light-years away, Nature screams. In a fraction of a second, a star explodes with more energy than ten billion billion billion hydrogen bombs. For a few weeks, the funeral pyre of the dying sun blazes and outshines the countless stars of its galaxy. When a star dies as a supernova, it is visible halfway across the universe.
The light from that supernova travels for ten billion years, attenuated and stretched along the way. By the time the light reaches Earth, it is far too dim to be spotted by the naked eye, but telescopes can see the supernova as a dim blotch in the sky. It is a message from the ends of the cosmosa message whose receipt on Earth heralds the beginning of a revolution.
This revolution began in the late 1990s, when two teams of scientists began to decode the death throes of dying stars. Their observations showed that the universe was suffused with a mysterious dark energy, an invisible substance that stretches the very fabric of space and time. The discovery of dark energy baffled and delighted astronomers, who scrambled to confirm the observations and understand the enigma. Whats more, the stellar death rattles held the secret to the universes deathscientists merely had to decrypt the message from the dying stars and they would understand how the cosmos would end.
That message has now been deciphered. On June 25, 2001, Time magazine devoted its cover to the end of the universe. Peering deep into space and time, scientists have just solved the biggest mystery in the cosmos, it exclaimed. This is no overstatement. Cosmologists now know how the universe will end, and a new set of experiments, whose results have begun to trickle out, is removing the veil over the big bang, showing us how it began.
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