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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A beautifully insightful book both about the origins of the universe and about deductive reasoning. I already knew the detection of the microwave background radiation was an important development in physics, but now I have a much clearer idea of just how important it was. ( ) This stuff is interesting, and I love thinking about cosmology. But reading this book reminded me of just how lousy scientists are at communicating beautiful ideas from their work to people outside their own field. I have several years of college physics and several astrophysics/cosmology courses as background, and I still found parts of this book nearly unreadable. I think a lot more people would understand the math and science bits of this book if they were supported by better writing for pleasure-reading. After all, a small paperback like this is not a textbook. no reviews | add a review
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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic. Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the elements that forged stars, planets, and lifeforms, to the fundamental forces of physics, can be traced back to what happened in just the first three minutes of its life. In this book, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg describes in wonderful detail what happened in these first three minutes. It is an exhilarating journey that begins with the Planck Epoch - the earliest period of time in the history of the universe - and goes through Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the Hubble Red Shift, and the detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background. These incredible discoveries all form the foundation for what we now understand as the "standard model" of the origin of the universe. The First Three Minutes examines not only what this model looks like, but also tells the exciting story of the bold thinkers who put it together. Clearly and accessibly written, The First Three Minutes is a modern-day classic, an unsurpassed explanation of where it is we really come from. No library descriptions found.
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