The Unknown Universe

What We Don't Know About Time and Space in Ten Chapters

Stuart Clark

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Head of Zeus
04 January 2017

Mathematics & Sciences; Popular astronomy & space

On 21 March 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early Universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology, on the other, it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct.

The map contains anomalies that challenge our understanding of the Universe. It will force us to revisit what is known and what is unknown, to construct a new model of our Universe. This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining scientific paradigm shift. Stuart Clark will ask if Newton's famous laws of gravity need to be rewritten, if dark matter and dark energy are just celestial phantoms? Can we ever know what happened before the Big Bang? What's at the bottom of a black hole? Are there Universes beyond our own? Does time exist? Are the once immutable laws of physics changing?

By: Stuart Clark
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781781855706
ISBN 10: 1781855706
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 January 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.wardmccandlish.co.uk/AuthorPhoto/HeadofZeus/Stuart_Clark.jpg

Dr Stuart Clark is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, author of the GUARDIAN blog 'Across the Universe' and astrology correspondent for NEW SCIENTIST. His books have been translated into twenty languages.

Reviews for The Unknown Universe: What We Don't Know About Time and Space in Ten Chapters

It is no revelation that some data on the early Universe sit uneasily with the standard model of cosmology. But in his clued-up overview, astronomy journalist Stuart Clark's picture of the yawning gaps in our understanding of the cosmos is fuller than most * Nature magazine *