Alpha and Omega
The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
Table of Contents
Preface
vii
Chapter 1: The First Cosmology
[The Golden Age of the Gods]
1
Chapter 2: The First Cosmological Revolution
[The Copernican Theory]
10
Chapter 3: The Second Cosmological Revolution
[Hubble and the Big Bang]
25
Chapter 4: The Third Revolution Begins
[The Universe Amok]
49
Chapter 5: The Music of the Spheres
[The Cosmic Microwave Background]
63
Chapter 6: The Dark Universe
[What's the Matter with Matter?]
90
Chapter 7: Darker Still
[The Enigma of Exotic Dark Matter]
103
Chapter 8: The Big Bang in Our Backyard
[The Birth of Baryons]
116
Chapter 9: The Good Nus
[The Exotic Neutrino]
132
Chapter 10: Supersymmetry
[Fearlessly Framing the Laws of Matter]
150
Chapter 11: Seeing the Invisible
[MACHOs, WIMPs, and Illuminating the Darkest Regions of the Universe]
163
Chapter 12: The Deepest Mystery in Physics
[&Lambda, the Vacuum, and Inflation]
182
Chapter 13: Wrinkles in Spacetime
[Gravitational Waves and the Early Universe]
199
Chapter 14: Beyond the Third Revolution
[Voyage to the Ends of Time]
215
Appendix A: Tired Light Retired
225
Appendix B: Where Does Matter Come From?
229
Appendix C: Nobel Prizes in Physics--Past and Future
235
Appendix D: Some Experiments to Watch
241
Glossary
249
Select Bibliography
269
Acknowledgements
277
Index
279
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