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The universe : leading scientists explore the origin, mysteries, and future of the cosmos Cover Image Book Book

The universe : leading scientists explore the origin, mysteries, and future of the cosmos

Brockman, John, 1941- (editor.).

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  • ISBN: 9780062296085 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 0062296086 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 379 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2014]

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Formatted Contents Note: A Golden Age of cosmology / Alan Guth -- The cyclic universe / Paul Steinhardt -- The inflationary universe / Alan Guth -- A balloon producing balloons producing balloons / Andrei Linde -- Theories of the bane / Lisa Randall -- The cyclic universe / Neil Turok -- Why does the universe look the way it does? / Sean Carroll -- In the matrix / Martin Rees -- Think about nature / Lee Smolin -- The landscape / Leonard Susskind (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Smolin vs. Susskind : the Anthropic Principle / Lee Smolin, Leonard Susskind (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Science is not about certainty / Carlo Rovelli (with an introduction by Lee Smolin) -- The energy of empty spaces that isn't zero / Lawrence Krauss -- Einstein : an Edge Symposium / Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Paul Steinhardt (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Einstein and Poincaré / Peter Galison -- Thinking about the universe on the larger scales / Raphael Bousso (with an introduction by Leonard Suskind) -- Quantum monkeys / Seth Lloyd -- The Nobel Prize and after / Frank Wilczek -- Who cares about fireflies? / Steven Strogatz (with an introduction by Alan Alda) -- Constructor theory / David Deutsch -- A theory of roughness / Benoit Mandelbrot (with an introduction by John Brockman).

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