false <![CDATA[Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351355m/22540.jpg 22540 3 In this companion volume to the two-part <I>NOVA</I> television special by the same title, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and astronomy writer Donald Goldsmith attempt to cram 14 billion years of history into 300 pages. The result of this audacious exercise is a surprising and engrossing book, one that far surpasses the droning tone of so many astronomy texts. Starting (of course) with the Big Bang and ending with the search for extraterrestrial life, the authors synthesize the results of several scientific fields to present a sort of cosmological consilience. They also emphasize the scientific method and its inherent skepticism as the only way to understand such mysteries as dark matter, stellar formation, and the origin of life on Earth. Although several books are published each year that provide overviews of various branches of science, what's different about this one is the accessible tone of the writing. The authors use mild humor throughout to keep readers going in difficult sections; for instance, when assessing the question of why we live during the rare time when the amounts of dark and not-dark energy are roughly equal in the universe, they relate that cosmologist Michael Turner calls the situation the "'Nancy Kerrigan problem,' in honor of the Olympic figure skater, who asked... 'Why me? Why now?'" Combining 21st-century astronomy, astrobiology, astrochemistry, and other disciplines, <I>Origins</I> is a fine guidebook with which to journey "back to the beginning of everything." <I>--Therese Littleton</I> 23561 2004 Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution total:82|5:20|4:37|3:23|2:2|1:0| 82 321 200 21 22540 0393327582 9780393327588 69 14 Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351355m/22540.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22540.Origins_Fourteen_Billion_Years_of_Cosmic_Evolution 3 0 false Wed Oct 08 11:59:07 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 11:59:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 22540 0393327582 9780393327588 69 14 Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351355m/22540.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22540.Origins_Fourteen_Billion_Years_of_Cosmic_Evolution 5 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 15:29:29 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 15:32:15 -0700 2009 22540 0393327582 9780393327588 69 14 Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351355m/22540.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22540.Origins_Fourteen_Billion_Years_of_Cosmic_Evolution 4 0 false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 14:20:43 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 19:35:43 -0700 2009 1802753 0393059928 9780393059922 12 6 Origins: 14 billion years of cosmic evolution 3.91 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1802753.Origins_14_billion_years_of_cosmic_evolution 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 02 17:01:10 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 00:23:44 -0800 2009
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