A Universe from Nothing

A Universe from Nothing
Author: Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013
Genre: Science
ISBN: 145162445X

This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?

At the Edge of Time

At the Edge of Time
Author: Dan Hooper
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0691197008

A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang—and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universe 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. Delving into the remarkable science 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.

God and the Cosmos

God and the Cosmos
Author: Harry Lee Poe
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830839542

Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God's interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. Rather than confirming that the cosmos is closed to the actions of the divine, advancing scientific knowledge seems to indicate that the nature of the universe is actually open to the unique type of divine activity portrayed in the Bible.

The Spacetime Origin of the Universe

The Spacetime Origin of the Universe
Author: Vladimir Ginzburg
Publisher: Irmc, Incorporated, Helicola Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2013-08-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0578125463

This book describes the basic concept of the Universal Spacetime Theory (UST). During its development I was stimulated by many scientific ideas proposed since the dawn of science that I described briefly in Chapter 1. In the UST, these ideas took on a completely new form, thanks to my discovery of a spiral string entity that I named the toryx. The toryx turned out to be a perfect candidate for a prime element of nature. This, however, was only the tip of the iceberg. Besides yielding the unified laws applicable to both micro- and macro-worlds, the toryx helped me to find the answer to the most puzzling question of science.

Origins of the Universe

Origins of the Universe
Author: Keith Cooper
Publisher: Icon Books
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2020-09-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1785786431

The quest to find a theory of quantum gravity that could potentially explain everything. Nearly 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson stumbled across a mysterious hiss of faint radio static that was interfering with their observations. They had found the key to unravelling the story of the Big Bang and the origin of our universe. That signal was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the earliest light in the universe, released 379,000 years after the Big Bang. It contains secrets about what happened during the very first tiny increments of time, which had consequences that have rippled throughout cosmic history, leading to the universe of stars and galaxies that we live in today. This is the enthralling story of the quest to understand the CMB radiation and what it can tell us of the origins of time and space, from bubble universes to a cyclical cosmos - and possibly leading to the elusive theory of quantum gravity itself.

Before the Big Bang

Before the Big Bang
Author: Laura Mersini-Houghton
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1328557146

"A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics." —The Washington Post 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.

The Spacetime Origin Of the Universe With Visible Dark Matter & Energy

The Spacetime Origin Of the Universe With Visible Dark Matter & Energy
Author: Vladimir Ginzburg
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0967143268

The Universal Spacetime Theory (UST) is the main subject of this book. It attempts to answer some very interesting questions related to the science and philosophy: * What is the origin of the Universe? * How was the Universe created out of nothing? * What are the structure and properties of ordinary matter that makes up less than 5%%%% of the Universe? * What are the structure and properties of dark matter that occupies about 27%%%% of the Universe? * What are the structure and properties of the dark energy that occupies roughly 68%%%% of the Universe? * Is the communication possible with superluminal velocity

The Fabric of the Cosmos

The Fabric of the Cosmos
Author: Brian Greene
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307428532

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes “an astonishing ride” through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.

Until the End of Time

Until the End of Time
Author: Brian Greene
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1524731684

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose, from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe. "Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose." —The New York Times Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Greene takes us on a journey from the big bang to the end of time, exploring how lasting structures formed, how life and mind emerged, and how we grapple with our existence through narrative, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and a deep longing for the eternal. From particles to planets, consciousness to creativity, matter to meaning—Brian Greene allows us all to grasp and appreciate our fleeting but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos.

The Physical Origin of the Universe

The Physical Origin of the Universe
Author: Frank Arca
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0595464793

The thesis of this book is to convey a solution to the physical origin of space-time, matter, the fundamental forces, and the mechanism of perception, by identifying a root from which there is a definite pathway to cognizing the underlying geometric cause from which all reality is therefrom based. This work lies between both physics and philosophy, and thus may be regarded in both categories, but more towards philosophy because such a powerful doctrine, which asserts the origin of the universe, is for now incapable of undergoing such definitive experimentation. A philosophy moreover on the framework to construct the correct equation of unification for physics is one major objective of this work; indeed there is constantly present the limited barrier of the mechanism of perception and idea, but, despite this fact, we may, without a doubt, still discover a route in order to make knowable the physical cause of nature. That besides, the doctrines which attempt to falsely represent such origins, namely those which propose to solve matter with more matter or space-time with extra space-time, or those which propose the opposite in that there is only consciousness and perception, all of which thus abandon the manifest quantities which are provided in reality. But in fact there is a new direction to which reason can turn in so far as to integrate what the former and latter propositions failed to do so, and this is to analyze the anatomic brain material as that which subsists exterior to the fabric of space-time, hence causality, and derive the prototypic geometric from which the extracted universe gains its shape and possibility in the first place.