Just Six Numbers

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees shows how the behaviour and origins of the universe can be explained by just six numbers.

How was it that a single "genesis event" could create billions of galaxies, stars and planets? This book demonstrates how just six numbers, imprinted in the Big Bang, determine the essential features of the physical cosmos.

Autorentext

Sir Martin Rees is an international leader in cosmology. He is Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University, and holds the title of Astronomer Royal. Together with his numerous collaborators he has contributed many key ideas on black holes, galaxy formation and high energy astrophysics.

His most recent books are GRAVITY'S FATAL ATTRACTION: BLACK HOLES IN THE UNIVERSE (with Mitchell Begelman), BEFORE THE BEGINNING: OUR UNIVERSE AND OTHERS and JUST SIX NUMBERS: THE DEEP FORCES THAT SHAPE THE UNIVERSE.

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Subtitled )The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe(, the Astronomer Royal describes the connection between stars and atoms, and how six numbers, imprinted in the big bang, have determined the structure of the universe.