Full name: Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time

Author: Heinz R. Pagels Year: 1985 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Physics, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780671465483 0671465481

Popular science at its best, this work details how cutting-edge discoveries in quantum physics & cosmology help to explain the origin & evolution of the universe, of space & time. Perfect Symmetry is an optimistic report about the ongoing synthesis of these two disciplines into a concerted effort to uncover the fundamental laws that not only describe how the stuff that makes up the universe--matter & energy--came into existence but also govern the behavior of the smallest & largest things, from subatomic particles to stars, galaxies & the cosmos itself. Written by that rarest of scientists--one who's esteemed by his peers yet capable of making complex ideas comprehensible to laypersons--Perfect Symmetry is an intellectual adventure, science that reads like art. Similar books: In Search of the Big Bang by John Gribbin The Inflationary Universe by Alan Guth Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose The Extravagant Universe by Robert P. Kirshner The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg Many Worlds in One by Alex Vilenkin Endless Universe by Paul J. Steinhardt The Five Ages of the Universe by Fred Adams The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne The Book of Universes by John D. Barrow The Origin Of The Universe by John D. Barrow The Last Three Minutes by Paul Davies Wrinkles in Time by George Smoot Alpha and Omega by Charles Seife QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman