An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe - Will Kinney
In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years ago in which the first elements were forged. The physical theory of the hot nascent universe—the Big Bang—was one of the most consequential developments in twentieth-century science. And yet it leaves many questions unanswered: Why is the universe so big? Why is it so old? What is the origin of structure in the cosmos? In An Infinity of Worlds, physicist Will Kinney explains a more recent theory that may hold the answers to these questions and even explain the ultimate origins of the universe: cosmic inflation, before the primordial fire of the Big Bang.
An Infinity of Worlds is available from the MIT Press on April 5, 2022. Learn more: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/infini...
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