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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Origins of the Universe
GLOSSARY
Profile: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Big Bang
Where it all began
When it all began
How it all began
The forces awaken
Baryon acoustic oscillations
Matter & antimatter
Cosmic microwave background
Cosmic reionization
Observable Universe
GLOSSARY
Profile: Vera Rubin
General relativity
Cosmic curvature
Cosmological constant
Gravity
Matter bright & dark
Energy bright & dark
Quantum Universe
GLOSSARY
Profile: Marie Curie
Quantum uncertainty
Standard model
Higgs boson
Bosons, the force carriers
Missing mass
Neutrinos
Physical Universe
GLOSSARY
Profile: Hypatia of Alexandria
Kepler’s laws of orbital motion
Newton’s laws of motion
Black holes
Galaxies
Stars
Between the stars
Planets
Life as we know it
Metaphysical Universe
GLOSSARY
Profile: Immanuel Kant
Ancient universe
Universe hypothesized
Universe observed
Knowing the unknowable
Why are we here?
Cosmic consciousness
Fate of the Universe
GLOSSARY
Profile: Stephen Hawking
End of life on Earth
Fate of our planet
Death of the Sun
Galaxies crash
Stars into ash
Matter disintegrated
Black holes evaporated
Finale dark & cold
Multiverse
GLOSSARY
Profile: Erwin Schrödinger
Infinite universe
Many worlds
String theory
Supersymmetry
M-Theory
Cosmic multiconnections
Universe unknown
Appendices
Resources
Notes on authors
Index
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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