Dimensions
128 x 198 x 22mm
Twelve bite-sizes ideas covering science's big questions, by one of the hottest young science writers in Britain.
Could time run backwards? Could we live forever? Are there multiple realities playing out all possible alternative histories? Could our universe have been created as a DIY experiment by superior beings in another universe?
These questions may sound crazy but they explore the limits of our current knowledge and highlight the key issues modern scientists are wrestling to understand.
If it sounds to you more like science fiction than science, you will amazed to discover that such ideas are currently exercising some of the brightest, most imaginative minds in the world.
As Cosmology Consultant at the New Scientist, Marcus Chown often comes across ideas that leave his head spinning. In this hugely entertaining, accessible and mind-blowing book, he explores the ramifications of, as he puts it, science with the "wow!" factor.
In this book, Marcus Chown explains all kinds of intriguing ideas that might just point the way to future thinking. If you think the Universe today is weird enough, the Universe tomorrow will blow your socks off.
