The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos (Best of Edge Series)

John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers--including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Martin Rees--to explain the universe in all wondrous splendor. In The Universe, today's most influential science writers explain the science behind our evolving understanding of the universe and everything in it, including the cutting edge research and discoveries that are shaping our knowledge. Lee Smolin reveals how math and cosmology are helping us create a theory of the whole universe. Benoit Mandelbrot looks back on a career devoted to fractal geometry. Neil Turok analyzes the fundamental laws of nature, what came before the big bang, and the possibility of a unified theory. Seth Lloyd investigates the impact of computational revolutions and the informational revolution. Lawrence Krauss provides fresh insight into gravity, dark matter, and the energy of empty space. Brian Greene and Walter Isaacson illuminate the genius who revolutionized modern science: Albert Einstein. And much more. Explore the universe with some of today's greatest minds: what it is, how it came into being, and what may happen next Collects Writings From Several Leading Theoretical Physicists And Cosmologists That Offer An Overview Of Our Scientific Understanding Of The Universe As It Stands Today. A Golden Age Of Cosmology / Alan Guth -- The Cyclic Universe / Paul Steinhardt -- The Inflationary Universe / Alan Guth -- A Balloon Producing Balloons Producing Balloons / Andrei Linde -- Theories Of The Bane / Lisa Randall -- The Cyclic Universe / Neil Turok -- Why Does The Universe Look The Way It Does? / Sean Carroll -- In The Matrix / Martin Rees -- Think About Nature / Lee Smolin -- The Landscape / Leonard Susskind (with An Introduction By John Brockman) -- Smolin Vs. Susskind : The Anthropic Principle / Lee Smolin, Leonard Susskind (with An Introduction By John Brockman) -- Science Is Not About Certainty / Carlo Rovelli (with An Introduction By Lee Smolin) -- The Energy Of Empty Spaces That Isn't Zero / Lawrence Krauss -- Einstein : An Edge Symposium / Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Paul Steinhardt (with An Introduction By John Brockman) -- Einstein And Poincaré / Peter Galison -- Thinking About The Universe On The Larger Scales / Raphael Bousso (with An Introduction By Leonard Suskind) -- Quantum Monkeys / Seth Lloyd -- The Nobel Prize And After / Frank Wilczek -- Who Cares About Fireflies? / Steven Strogatz (with An Introduction By Alan Alda) -- Constructor Theory / David Deutsch -- A Theory Of Roughness / Benoit Mandelbrot (with An Introduction By John Brockman). Edited By John Brockman. Includes Bibliographical References. John Brockman brings together the worlds best-known physicists and science writersincluding Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winners Murray Gell-Mann and Frank Wilczek, and Brian Coxto explain the universe in all wondrous splendor. In Universe , todays most influential science writers explain the science behind our evolving understanding of the universe and everything in it, including the cutting edge research and discoveries that are shaping our knowledge. Lee Smolin reveals how math and cosmology are helping us create a theory of the whole universe Brian Cox offers new dimensions on the Large Hadron and the existence of a Higgs-Boson particle Neil Turok analyzes the fundamental laws of nature, what came before the big bang, and the possibility of a unified theory. Seth Lloyd investigates the impact of computational revolutions and the informational revolution Lawrence Krauss provides fresh insight into gravity, dark matter, and the energy of empty space Brian Greene and Walter Isaacson illuminate the genius who revolutionized modern science: Albert Einstein and much more. Explore the Universe with some of todays greatest minds: what it is, how it came into being, and what may happen next. "In the wake of one of the most groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs in modern times, the March 2014 discovery of gravitational ripples from the Big Bang--an apparent confirmation of Alan Guth and Andrei Linde's theory of cosmic inflation--John Brockman of Edge.org has gathered together some of the world's best minds to explain the universe as we currently know it. The contributors--many pioneering theoretical physicists and cosmologists, including Guth and Linde--provide an extraordinary picture of cosmology as it has developed over the past three decades."--Provided by publisher