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Genesis : the story of how everything began / Guido Tonelli ; translated from the Italian by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.
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- ISBN: 9780374600488 :
- ISBN: 0374600481 :
- Physical Description: 223 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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| General Note: | Originally published in Italian in 2019 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano, Italy, as Genesi. |
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| Subject: | Cosmology. Life > Origin. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pease Public Library | 523.1 TONELLI
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Genesis : The Story of How Everything Began
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Table of Contents
Genesis : The Story of How Everything Began
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction: The Grand Narrative of Origins | p. 1 | |
| Foundation Myths and Science | ||
| A Complicated Language | ||
| A Dangerous Voyage | ||
| The Two Paths of Knowledge | ||
| Abandon All Prejudice, Ye Who Enter Here | ||
| In the Beginning Was the Void | p. 19 | |
| A Gigantic Expanding Universe | ||
| The Big Bang | ||
| A Universe That Emerges from the Void | ||
| The Void, or Nothingness? | ||
| The Void and Chaos | ||
| Day 1 | An Irresistible Breath Produces the First Wonder | p. 45 |
| A Peculiar Primordial Field | ||
| An Unstoppable Expansion | ||
| The Success of Inflation Theory | ||
| In Search of the Smoking Gun | ||
| The Golden Age of Grand Unification | ||
| Day 2 | The Delicate Touch of a Boson Changes Everything, Forever | p. 66 |
| The Enchantment of Narcissus | ||
| The Beauty of Broken Symmetry | ||
| The Discovery of the Higgs Boson | ||
| Who Broke the Symmetry between Matter and Antimatter? | ||
| The Deepest Symmetry of All | ||
| Accelerators of the Future | ||
| Day 3 | The Birth of the Immortals | p. 97 |
| The Most Perfect Liquid | ||
| Protons Are Forever | ||
| Light yet Indispensable | ||
| The Shyest and Kindest Are the First to Leave | ||
| They Will Form the Heart of Stars | ||
| Day 4 | And Then, at Last, There Was Light | p. 114 |
| A World without Light and Filled with Dark Entities | ||
| The Hour of Matter Strikes | ||
| The Secret Messages in the Wall | ||
| A Very Detailed Story | ||
| Day 5 | The First Star Lights Up | p. 134 |
| And So We Go Out to See the Stars | ||
| The Heroic Age of the Megastars | ||
| An Incredible Cosmic Firework | ||
| The Fascination of Black Stars | ||
| The Singularity of Black Holes | ||
| A Fusion Worth More than Its Weight in Gold | ||
| Day 6 | And Chaos Disguised Itself as Order | p. 158 |
| Spira Mirabilis | ||
| Galaxies, Clusters and Collisions | ||
| The Dark Heart of Our Milky Way | ||
| Do Not Wake the Sleeping Dragon | ||
| Orion's Fine Arrows | ||
| Day 7 | A Swarming of Complex Forms | p. 179 |
| The Sun and Its Wandering Stars | ||
| Thank Goodness for Theia | ||
| The Cradle of Complexity | ||
| Exoplanets | ||
| The Human Factor | p. 202 | |
| The Construction of the Symbolic | ||
| In the Beginning Was Thauma, or Wonder | ||
| The Power of Imagination | ||
| Epilogue: The Massacre of the Assumption | p. 218 | |
| Acknowledgements | p. 223 |
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