ISBN: 9780525953661

Description: xxii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title: Universe in the rear view mirror

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Introduction: in which i set everything up, so it's probably best not to skip ahead
• antimatter : in which we learn why there is something rather than nothing
• entropy : in which we explore where time comes from or whether it just is
• the cosmological principle : in which we learn why it is dark at night
• emmy noether : in which we determine what symmetry really means
• relativity : in which we fail to build an intergalactic ansible
• gravity : in which we learn why black holes don't last forever
• replacement : in which we consider the design specifications for a teleportation device
• spin : in which we investigate why you aren't a sentient cloud of helium and what a spoonful of neutron star would do to you
• higgs : in which we explore the origin of mass and why physics isn't stamp collecting
• hidden symmetries : in which objects in the mirror are closer than they appear
• appendix
• roadside attraction 1: the particle zoo
• roadside attraction 2: a side of symmetrie.

LCCN: 2013016178

Subjects:

• Cosmology.
• Physics -- Philosophy.
• Physics.
• Reality.
• Symmetry.