Weird Universe Exploring the Most Bizarre Ideas in Cosmology /

• Main Author: Seargent, David A. J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

As new discoveries complicate the scientific picture of the universe, the evolving theories about the nature of space and time and the origins and fate of the universe threaten to become overwhelming. Enter David Seargent. Continuing the author's series of books popularizing strange astronomy f...

Table of Contents:

• From Water World to Inflation
• Space, Time, Relativity and Other Things
• The Shape, Size, Age and Origin of the Universe
• Of Atoms, Quanta, Strings and Branes
• Observations and Ideas From Left Field
• Appendix.