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The Universe

A Biography

John Gribbin

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English
Penguin
27 August 2009
The follow-up to his bestselling Science- A History

How did the universe grow from a tiny fireball to its present size? Where did life on earth come from? How do planets form? How will it end? And how do we even know all this anyway?

John Gribbin, one of Britain's most popular writers about science and the people who made it happen, has decided to create a biography of the greatest subject of all- the universe itself, from beginning to end (and beyond).

From the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, the formation of stars and galaxies and the first stirrings of life, to the latest thinking on dark matter and a theory of everything - and beyond to the future possibility of a Big Crunch or a Big Rip - this is the life history of the entire world around us.

'As clear an account of current thinking on the subject as we are likely to get'

Daily Telegraph

'Its conclusions are earth-shattering'

Sunday Herald

'One of Britain's best and most prolific science writers'

Sunday Telegraph
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Re-issue ed
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   191g
ISBN:   9780141021478
ISBN 10:   0141021470
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John Gribbin is the author of bestselling books including In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, Stardust, Science: A History and Deep Simplicity. He is famous to his many fans for making complex ideas simple, and says that his aim in his writing is to share his sense of wonder at the strangeness of the universe. He trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.

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