Uncover the Cosmic Clues to Our Amazing Universe Explore the Mysteries with America's 2006 'Professor of the Year'

摘要

Whe has not gazed with wonder at the night sky? The canopy of stars overhead suggests that our world is part of a vastly larger cosmos. But how large is it? And how did it all begin? These questions have puzzled stargazers for thousands of years, and the search for answers helped spark the great advances of the scientific revolution in the 16th and 17° centuries. But only in our own time has the full picture of the true immensity, variety, and surpassing strangeness of the universe come into focus.