| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 379 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Original works from the online pages of Edge.org"--Page ix. |
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"Edge.org presents Brian Greene, Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, Lisa Randall, and more"--Cover. |
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"Fourth volume in the Best of Edge series"--Page ix. |
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"Edge.org was launched in 1996 as the online version of 'The Reality Club' and as a living document on the Web to display the activities of 'The Third Culture' " (www.edge.org/about-us). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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 brane / 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 Sus[s]kind) -- 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). |
| Summary |
Collects writings from several leading theoretical physicists and cosmologists that offer an overview of our scientific understanding of the universe as it stands today. |
| Subject |
Cosmology.
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Scientists -- Interviews.
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Cosmology. (OCoLC)fst00880600
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Scientists. (OCoLC)fst01108895
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
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| Added Author |
Brockman, John, 1941- editor.
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Reality Club.
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| Added Title |
Origin, mysteries, and future of the cosmos |
| ISBN |
9780062296085 (paperback) |
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0062296086 (paperback) |
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