by Alan H Guth (Author)
This classic Big Bang text neatly describes what happened after the bang. Yet, until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the Big Bang Theory still couldn't answer, primarily: If matter can neither be created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? Alan Guth's Inflationary Universe Theory answers these vexing questions. When NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite measured the non-uniformities of the cosmic background radiation for the first time in 1992, the patterns agreed exquisitely with the theory's predictions.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Jul 1998
ISBN 10: 009995950X
ISBN 13: 9780099959502
Book Overview: The first-hand account of the paradigm-breaking discovery of the origins of the universe - 'mind-blowing stuff' Sunday Times