Jim Baggott

Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation

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What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know?There are many different versions of our creation story. This book tells the version according to modern science. It is a unique account, starting at the Big Bang and travelling right up to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later. Chapter by chapter, it sets out the current state of scientific knowledge: the origins of space and time; energy, mass, and light; galaxies, st… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-101734-6
EAN: 9780191017346
Produktnummer: 19557173
Verlag: Oup Oxford
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 432 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor

Jim Baggott is a freelance science writer. He was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Reading but left to work with Shell International Petroleum Company and then as an independent business consultant and trainer. His many books include Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle' (OUP, 2012), A Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments (OUP, 2011) and A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005).