Henry Carter Hull

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. This book 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...

Tells the story of the universe, from its inception at the big bang to its disintegrated slide into the far future, identifying and describing five ages the authors believe the universe will go through over its ten thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion-year existence.

Carl Sagan's complete Emmy and Peabody award-winning thirteen episode mini-series exploring cosmology and astronomy.

Presents the discovery of wrinkles in the fabric of space-time by the COBE satellite in 1992 in text and photographs.

Examines the forces at work in the universe from classical Newtonian physics to the implications of relativity, theories on the cosmos, and the end of the universe.

Discusses the advancement of the study of the universe and the tools that astronomers use to study the cosmos.

"One of our great contemporary scientists presents ten insights that illuminate what every thinking person needs to know about what the world is and how it works. Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek's Fundamentals is built around a simple but profound idea: the models of the world we construct as children are practical and adequate for everyday life, but they do not bring in the surprising and mind-expanding revelations of modern science. To do that,...