The Little Book of the Big Bang: A Cosmic Primer

by Craig J. Hogan

Book Overview

"Hogan compresses the fifteen-billion-year history of the Universe into a pleasurable evening. In a very direct way, he answers the questions everyone asks." -MARGARET GELLER, HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS
"This delightful little primer brings you right up to the cutting edge of modern cosmology." -GEORGE SMOOT, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, COBE AND AUTHOR OF WRINKLES IN TIME
"An excellent bridge by which the layperson can enter the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387983856
• ISBN13: 9780387983851
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Copernicus Books
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Big overview for a little book

Easy to read but fairly complete overview of the Big Bang.

Coherent, understandable explanations of big-bang-cosmology

An excellent book for readers with basic knowledge and interest in physics and "physical thinking". It gives a complete, understandable picture of cosmic evolution and the theories which (try to) describe it, and it took away my idea of cosmology as some kind of mysterious physics.

Interesting, informative, and manageable.

I'm not a physicist but do read much of this "popular" science. I found this book readable and informative. The last full chapter on the inflationary universe (repulsive gravity) is particularly fascinating.