num_pages: 393
description: From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole. Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly written overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to go in the twenty-first century. He explores the questions that have occurred to even casual readers -- who are curious about nature on the largest scales: What does it mean to say that the universe is "expanding," or that space is "curved"? -- and sheds light on the possibility that our universe is only one among many universes, each with its own physical laws and prospects for the emergence of life.
language: English
title: The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report
titlecomplete: The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report
genres: Popular Science, History, Science, Science Nature, Mathematics, Space, History Of Science, Physics, Astronomy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2381
publisher: Simon & Schuster