After the First Three Minutes : The Story of Our Universe
T R Padmanabhan; Thanu Padmanabhan
Cambridge University Press
9780521629720
0-521-62972-1
How does our Universe evolve? And how did structures like stars and galaxies form? In recent years, scientists' understanding of these profound questions has developed enormously. This book presents a clear, state-of-the-art picture of cosmology for the general reader.Unlike existing popular books on cosmology, After the first three minutes does not gloss over details, nor shy away from explaining the underlying concepts. Instead, with a lucid and informal style (and avoiding all mathematics), the author introduces all the relevant background and then carefully pieces