Thursday, March 29, 2007

"The First Three Minutes"-Steven Weinberg

This book deals with the speculations that Nobel Laurate - Steven Weinberg makes about the conditions that existed for the first three minure of the creation of the universe.
He starts off with the reason he has this speculations, the expansion of the univese, the background radio wave radiations that where one the first clues in this direction, the various experiments that were conducted to know the origin of this radiations, the Doppler effect and its use in estimations.
He then starts off realing with the situations that exsisted for the first 3 minutes, he continues on with this speculations of the contents what he calls as the recipe of the universe (the various sub-atomic particles that where in the state) the reason why they were in that state, how they combined to form various other sub-atomic particles. This journey through the composition of the universe is very exciting one. He explains these situations in frames dealing, which makes it more like a photographic explanation. The has written it very nicely. He leaves the speculations of the first hundredth of a second so as to get the people to understand it better and later on reveals his understanding of this small time frame in a very nice way.
He concludes the book with a whole new prospects let to the reader to think in a fresh manner.

Over all a very well written book with a lot of information for those interested in the birth of universe.

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