num_pages: 390
description: Popular science at its best this work details how cutting-edge discoveries in quantum physics &amp; cosmology help to explain the origin &amp; evolution of the universe of space &amp; time. Perfect Symmetry is an optimistic report about the ongoing synthesis of these two disciplines into a concerted effort to uncover the fundamental laws that not only describe how the stuff that makes up the universe--matter &amp; energy--came into existence but also govern the behavior of the smallest &amp; largest things from subatomic particles to stars galaxies &amp; the cosmos itself. Written by that rarest of scientists--one who's esteemed by his peers yet capable of making complex ideas comprehensible to laypersons--Perfect Symmetry is an intellectual adventure science that reads like art.
language: English
title: Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time
publisher: Simon & Schuster (NY)