{"product_id":"before-time-began-helmut-satz-9780198792420","title":"Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe","description":"What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second Copernican revolution: neither our Earth and Sun, nor our galaxy, nor even our universe, are the end of all things. Beyond our world, in an endless multiverse, are innumerable other universes, coming and going, like ours or different. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFourteen billion years ago, one of the many bubbles constantly appearing and vanishing in the multiverse exploded to form our universe. The energy liberated in the explosion provided the basis for all the matter our universe now contains. But how could this hot, primordial plasma eventually produce the complex structure of our present world? Does not order eventually always lead to disorder, to an increase of entropy? Modern cosmology is beginning to find out how it all came about and where it all might lead. \u003cem\u003eBefore Time Began\u003c\/em\u003e tells that story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helmut Satz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198792425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198792420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018","brand":"Helmut Satz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43914240950527,"sku":"9780198792420","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_975012d3-1fdb-4c73-b1d0-21e078bc6b93.jpg?v=1680641156","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/before-time-began-helmut-satz-9780198792420","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}