In the grand tradition of popular exposition, astrophysicist Hubert Reeves explains current scientific understanding of the deepest mysteries of the universe in terms that will excite, stimulate, and educate the nonscientific reader. When it was first published in France in 1981, this book quickly became a best-seller and was avidly embraced by the popular press. The reviewer for L'Express, for example, wrote that "Reeves turns astrophysics into an epic saga, a metaphysical fresco, a story in the fullest sense of the word. [He can do this] because he forgets to be a professor. Facing the sky, his eternal home, he recounts the titanic struggle of primordial forces that, over the course of billions of years, formed the cosmos and all it contains...." The book falls into three broad sections. The first explores the implications of the discovery that the universe does indeed have a history - that the night sky that so excites our wonder is not static but has both a beginning and an end. The second uncovers the layers of evolution that comprise that history, from the cosmic phase in the first few moments of the universe when energy first transformed itself into matter, to the biological phase when matter transformed itself into life. The third goes behind the scenes of the universal drama to examine such basic concepts as time, energy, and chance. Reeves' style is metaphorical, determinedly naive, and even slightly anthropomorphic. Music becomes a metaphor for all of the orderliness in the universe that might just as easily have been cosmic "noise" if there had been no guiding principles at work. To understand those guiding principles, and to gain a fuller appreciation of the music that they produce, is` the goal of this enlightening and poetic book.

Atoms of Silence: An Exploration of Cosmic Evolution

Science & Math

Reeves, Hubert

Physics

Mit Pr

First printing in trade paperback. Very minor shelfwear. Near Fine.

Astronomy & Space Science

Hour of Our Delight: Cosmic Evolution, Order, and Complexity

W.H.Freeman & Co.

"The most personal book of an internationally acclaimed astrophysicist."

Malicorne: Earthly reflections of an astrophysicist

Stoddart

Three eminent scientists examine the age-old questions that have obsessed humankind, including the creation of the universe, the first particles, and the evolution that lead to contemporary lifeforms, providing easy-to-understand answers in a layperson's terms.

Origins: Speculations On the Cosmos,earth, And Mankind

Arcade Publishing

Three eminent scientists discuss some of mankind's most basic questions about the origins of the universe, the Earth, and humankind

Origins: Cosmos, Earth,and Mankind

Three eminent scientists ponder the basic questions that have obsessed humankind for ages and offer enlightening answers.

Origins: Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth and Mankind

In this potent book, three eminent scientists—an astrophysicist, an organic chemist, and an anthropologist—ponder and discuss some of the basic questions that have obsessed humankind through the ages, and offer thoughtful, enlightening answers in terms the layperson can easily understand. Until now, most of these questions were addressed by religion and philosophy. But science has reached a point where it, too, can voice an opinion. Beginning with the Big Bang roughly fifteen billion years ago, the authors trace the evolution of the cosmos, from the first particles, the atoms, the molecules, the development of cells, organisms, and living creatures, up to the arrival of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. Proactive, informative, and free of technical or scientific jargon, Origins offers compelling insights into how the universe, life on Earth, and the human species began.

Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind

History

Coppens, Yves

Simonnet, Dominique

de Rosney, Joel

World

Arcade

Poussières d'étoiles (Science ouverte) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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Atoms of Silence: An Exploration of Cosmic Evolution

Atoms of Silence: An Exploration of Cosmic Evolution

Hour of Our Delight: Cosmic Evolution, Order, and Complexity

Malicorne: Earthly reflections of an astrophysicist

Atoms of Silence: An Exploration of Cosmic Evolution

Origins: Speculations On the Cosmos,earth, And Mankind

Origins: Cosmos, Earth,and Mankind

Origins: Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth and Mankind

Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind

Poussières d'étoiles (Science ouverte) (French Edition)