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At the Edge of Time
- Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang - and how continuing research into these moments may transform cosmology and physics
Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: We still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. At the Edge of Time focuses on what we have recently learned and are still striving to understand about this most essential and mysterious period of time at the beginning of cosmic history.
Taking listeners into the remarkable world of cosmology, Dan Hooper describes many of the extraordinary and perplexing questions that scientists are asking about the origin and nature of our world. Hooper examines how we are using the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments to re-create the conditions of the Big Bang and test promising theories for how and why our universe came to contain so much matter and so little antimatter. We may be poised to finally discover how dark matter was formed during our universe's first moments, and, with new telescopes, we are also lifting the veil on the era of cosmic inflation, which led to the creation of our world as we know it.
Wrestling with the mysteries surrounding the initial moments that followed the Big Bang, At the Edge of Time presents an accessible investigation of our universe and its origin.
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- Sarah B.
- 12-05-24
brilliant!
some complex physics related to the listener in plain language. Not dumbed down, just really well explained!
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- Gavin
- 29-08-23
Excellently written and great book
A really enjoyable book, been reading a lot of physics books looking for something new or interesting instead of the same old historic over view with very little new information. This book is well structured too and brings you to unimaginable places and unimaginable scales, would highly recommend, its is not entry level some previous physics learning or reading would make this book far more enjoyable.
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- Redd
- 11-02-22
Loved it
Pitched at the right level for a knowledgeable reader! Excellent quality and narration! What a lovely book!
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- v j cumming
- 22-12-19
OK
Suffers from the usual problems of almost all popular physics books. Namely, lengthy passages where you are not given any means to actually understand what is being discussed. Nevertheless, a reasonably written popular survey of contemporary cosmology.
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