Cosmic Odyssey

The immensity of the cosmos, the richness of the Universe, the limits of space and time: these are the themes of Cosmic Odyssey.

Jean Heidmann (Author)

9780521348515, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 August 2008

204 pages, 40 b/w illus. 5 tables
21.6 x 14 x 1 cm, 0.29 kg

The immensity of the cosmos, the richness of the Universe, the limits of space and time: these are the themes of Cosmic Odyssey, which takes the reader on imaginary journeys through the past, present and future of our universe.

Preface
1. The starry night
2. The universe, a thousand-year enigma
3. A first look at the universe
4. The relativistic universe
5. The quantum universe
6. The inflationary universe
7. The universe and ourselves
Epilogue.

Subject Areas: Quantum physics [quantum mechanics & quantum field theory PHQ], Cosmology & the universe [PGK]