Once before time : a whole story of the universe / Martin Bojowald.
| Author/creator | Bojowald, Martin |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st American ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. |
| Description | viii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Zurück vor den Urknall. English |
| Contents | Gravitation -- Quantum theory -- An interlude on the role of mathematics -- Quantum gravity -- Observational cosmology -- Black holes -- The arrow of time -- Cosmogony -- One world -- Theory of everything? -- The limits of science and the nobility of nature. |
| Abstract | Traces how the author, a physics professor, used the new science of loop quantum gravity to create a simple model of the universe that launched loop quantum cosmology, proposing the theory that the universe undergoes an infinite series of expansions and contractions through time. |
| General note | "Originally published in Germany as Zurück vor den Urknall : Die ganze Geschichte des Universums ... in 2009"--T.p. verso. |
| General note | "A Borzoi book" -- T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010015937 |
| ISBN | 9780307272850 |
| ISBN | 0307272850 |