 Just Six
Numbers
Deep Forces that Shape the Universe
Martin J. Rees
The genesis of the universe elegantly explained in a simple theory based
on just six numbers by one of the world's most renowned astrophysicists
How did a single genesis event-the Big Bang-create the billions of
galaxies, black holes, stars, and planets that make up our universe? How
did atoms manage to assemble themselves into living beings (here on earth,
and perhaps on other worlds) who are sufficiently intricate and complex to
have the consciousness to ponder their origins?
In Just Six Numbers, the answers to these questions are
connected, just as a deep connection exists between stars and atoms, the
cosmos and the microworld.
Professor Sir Martin Rees is Britain's Astronomer Royal. He is
the author of several books, including Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black
Holes in the Universe (with Mitchell Begelman) and Before the Beginning:
Our Universe and Others. A member of the Royal Society, the United States
National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and
numerous foreign academies, Rees is Royal Society Research Professor at
Cambridge University. |
