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Mersini-Houghton, Laura.
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Big bang theory.
Creation.
Cosmogony.
Universe.
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Mersini-Houghton, Laura.
Cosmology.
Big bang theory.
Creation.
Cosmogony.
Universe.
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Before the Big Bang : the origin of the Universe and what lies beyond / Laura Mersini-Houghton.
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Mersini-Houghton, Laura.
Mariner Books, 2022.
Call #:
523.12 M574b
Subjects
Cosmology.
Big bang theory.
Creation.
Cosmogony
.
Universe.
ISBN:
9781328557117 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxi, 216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"A revolutionary new account of our universe's creation -- and a breathtaking exploration of the landscape from which we sprang -- from one of the world's most celebrated cosmologists. What came before the Big Bang, and what exists outside of the universe it created? Until recently, scientists could only guess at what lay past the edge of space-time. However, as pioneering theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton explains, new scientific tools are now giving us the ability to peer beyond the limits of our universe and to test our theories about what is there. And what we are finding is upending everything we thought we knew about the cosmos and our place in it. Mersini-Houghton is no stranger to boundaries -- or to pushing through them. As a child growing up in communist Albania, she discovered a universe beyond her walled-off world through the study of math and science, and through music. As a female cosmologist in a male-dominated field, she transcended the limits that society and her profession tried to place on her. And as a trailblazing researcher, she helped to revolutionize the study of our universe by revealing that, far from living in a cosmic Albania, with a world that ends at its borders, we are part of a larger family of universes -- a multiverse -- that holds wonders we are only beginning to unlock. Mersini-Houghton's groundbreaking research suggests that we sit in a quantum landscape whose peaks and valleys hide a multitude of other universes, and even hold the secret to the origins of existence itself. Recent evidence has revealed the signatures of such sibling universes in our own night sky, confirming Mersini-Houghton's theoretical work and offering humbling evidence that our universe is just one member of an unending cosmic family. The incredible scientific saga of one woman’s mind-expanding journey through the multiverse, 'Before the Big Bang' will reshape our understanding of humanity's place in the unfathomable vastness of the cosmos."--Barnes&Noble.
Laura Mersini-Houghton is an internationally renowned cosmologist and theoretical physicist and is one of the world’s leading experts on the multiverse and the origins of the universe. Currently, she is a professor of theoretical physics and cosmology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a visiting professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. She has been the subject of hundreds of articles in leading popular science magazines and has appeared on the Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, as well as on documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the BBC. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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