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Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780226816296
ISBN 10: 022681629
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 22 September 2021
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Brilliant. You won't find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together. --Bill Bryson A whistle-stop tour of the major questions in contemporary cosmology. --Philip Ball, author of Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different Davies has selected a wonderful potpourri of deep questions with incomplete answers. The result is a delightful fresh-smelling account of the cutting edge of modern cosmology. He is truly exceptional at explaining all of this in his inimitable style--let's say 'astropoetry.' --Simon Mitton, University of Cambridge What's Eating the Universe? is a veritable feast for curious minds. Davies, a polymath and lyrical writer, masterfully tackles all the big questions ranging from why this Universe to the meaning of life and the significance of the present moment--a whirlwind journey through ideas that have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and its constituents. --Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos What's Eating the Universe? is Davies at his very best. He brings a lifetime of experience in explaining mysteries of space and time to offer thought-provoking essays on deep questions in bite-sized, easily digestible chunks. There is no better overview of the advances made by cosmologists in recent decades. --John Gribbin
Davies gives us a thought-provoking, fascinating, and delightful journey through some of the Big Questions that have perplexed and tantalized scientists throughout history. These are the questions and paradoxes that have stumped and teased history's greatest minds. What happened before the beginning? What is the meaning of the universe? Are there other universes? --Michio Kaku Davies brings his customary lucidity to a survey of some of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of our universe, simultaneously educating us about its vertiginous wonders and giving us a real sense of science's questions as it confronts and explores them and wrestles with their mystery. It is an absorbing and stimulating read, one of the best of its kind. --A. C. Grayling Brilliant. You won't find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together. --Bill Bryson A whistle-stop tour of the major questions in contemporary cosmology. --Philip Ball, author of Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different Davies has selected a wonderful potpourri of deep questions with incomplete answers. The result is a delightful fresh-smelling account of the cutting edge of modern cosmology. He is truly exceptional at explaining all of this in his inimitable style--let's say 'astropoetry.' --Simon Mitton, University of Cambridge What's Eating the Universe? is a veritable feast for curious minds. Davies, a polymath and lyrical writer, masterfully tackles all the big questions ranging from why this Universe to the meaning of life and the significance of the present moment--a whirlwind journey through ideas that have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and its constituents. --Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos What's Eating the Universe? is Davies at his very best. He brings a lifetime of experience in explaining mysteries of space and time to offer thought-provoking essays on deep questions in bite-sized, easily digestible chunks. There is no better overview of the advances made by cosmologists in recent decades. --John Gribbin
A whistle-stop tour of the major questions in contemporary cosmology. --Philip Ball, author of Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different Davies has selected a wonderful potpourri of deep questions with incomplete answers. The result is a delightful fresh-smelling account of the cutting edge of modern cosmology. He is truly exceptional at explaining all of this in his inimitable style--let's say 'astropoetry.' --Simon Mitton, University of Cambridge
Author Information
Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, broadcaster, and best-selling author. A winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, he is Regents’ Professor of Physics and director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University. He is the author, most recently, of The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
