Title: Once before time : a whole story of the universe /
Authors: Bojowald, Martin.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Cosmology.; Beginning.; Space and time.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.