On the Inside of a Marble From Quantum Mechanics to the Big Bang /

• Main Author: Bascom, Gavin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Quantum physics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy.; Physics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Quantum Physics.; Popular Science in Physics.

Keeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy, Bascom begins his text by meticulously laying the necessary groundwork to understand the Big Bang’s mathematics without using any equations. He then paints a freeze-frame picture of our universe as if we had taken...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Narrative Time
• 3. Narrative Space
• 4. Narrative Energy
• 5. A Universe Far From Equilibrium
• 6. A Statistical Mechanical View of the Universe
• 7. Putting the Future at the Beginning.