Alpha And Omega: The Search For The Beginning And The End Of The
Universe

Product Description

Since A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME scientists have been in the midst of a revolution in cosmology. Gradually, astronomers & physicists are answering questions that have plagued mankind since prehistory: how was the universe born, how will it end? As we are now able to peer ever more closely into the cradle of the universe, so we are increasingly able to envisage its grave. By the middle of this decade, scientists will be able to provide some of the answers. These will be among the greatest triumphs of science.

This book tells that story & will reveal results of the most advanced experiments in cosmology ever conducted. It's also an intensely human story
- a tale of men solving the insoluble, of the controversy & intense competition & rivalry between individuals & laboratories pursuing the same goal. Even more thrillingly
- it is a lucid explanation of new scientific ideas that stretch our powers of understanding to their highest levels, & beyond.