Once before time : a whole story of the universe /
Bojowald, Martin.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf,
2010.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Cosmology.
Beginning.
Space and time.