Once before time : a whole story of the universe / Martin Bojowald.

Author/creator Bojowald, Martin
Format Book
Edition1st American ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Descriptionviii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleZurück 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010015937
ISBN9780307272850
ISBN0307272850