Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439148884)

Popular science at its best, this acclaimed classic work describes in stunning detail how cutting-edge discoveries in quantum physics and cosmology are helping to explain the origin and evolution of the universe, of space and time. Perfect Symmetry is an optimistic report about the ongoing synthesis of these two disciplines into a concerted effort to uncover the fundamental laws that not only describe how the stuff that makes up the universe -- matter and energy -- came into existence but also govern the behavior of the smallest and largest things, from subatomic particles to stars, galaxies, and the universe itself. Written by that rarest of scientists -- one who is esteemed by his peers yet capable of making the most complex ideas comprehensible to laymen -- Perfect Symmetry is an enthralling intellectual adventure, science that reads like art.

Author: Heinz R. Pagels
ISBN-10: 1439148880
ISBN-13: 9781439148884
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2009
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.98d