THE BOOK OF UNIVERSES
Book ID/图书代码： 11320010B36206
English Summary/英文概要： This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein’s famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes. Not many solutions to Einstein’s tantalising universe equations have ever been found, but those that have are all remarkable. Some describe universes that expand in size, while others contract. Some rotate like a top, while others are chaotically unpredictable. Some are perfectly smooth, while others are lumpy. Some permit time travel into the past. Only a few allow life to evolve within them; the rest, if they exist, remain unknown and unknowable to conscious minds.
Our story will encounter universes where the laws of physics can change from time to time and from one region to another, universes that have extra hidden dimensions of space and time, universes that are eternal, universes that live inside black holes, universes that end without warning, colliding universes, inflationary universes, and universes that come into being from something else – or from nothing at all.
Gradually, we are introduced to the latest and the best descriptions of the Universe as we understand it today, together with the concept of the ‘Multiverse’ – the universe of all possible universes – that modern theories of physics lead us to contemplate. Here, in The Book of Universes, we are confronted with the most fantastic and far-reaching speculations within the entire realm of science.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 头上的星空，自古以来就激发着人类无尽的好奇和想象。为了解释我们所见的宇宙，从亚里士多德、托勒密、哥白尼、牛顿、康德到爱因斯坦，再到现代学者对爱因斯坦宇宙学方程组的艰难求解，人们提出了各式各样的理论，描述了种种面貌不一的宇宙。而在最新的多重宇宙论中，可能的宇宙不只限于理论，而是真实的存在，数量更数不胜数，其中的自然法则可能各不相同。身为知名的宇宙学家和科普作家，作者将在这本《宇宙之书——从托勒密、爱因斯坦到多重宇宙》中带领我们回顾历史，追踪现代天文学的前沿进展，纵览“奇异得超乎我们想象”的万千宇宙。
Awards/获奖情况：我将此书推荐给一切对世界和宇宙起源，包括我们人类自身起源抱有好奇心的读者……这本书绝对是一本不可多得的、能够帮助我们梳理宇宙学这个领域各式各样理论的饶有趣味的书。——李淼（中国科学院理论物理研究所研究员）
巴罗教授的这本著作是一本颇为有趣、让人大开眼界的宇宙学科普书籍。无论是初次接触宇宙学的人，还是对之有一定了解甚至从事专业研究的人，都可以从阅读此书中得到一些乐趣。我愿向所有对宇宙学感兴趣的读者们推荐本书。——陈学雷（中国科学院国家天文台）
"There can be few better guides to the bewidering array of potential universes, and none so readable or entertaining."
---Independent
About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰·D. 巴罗（John D.Barrow），生于1952年，英国剑桥大学应用数学与理论物理学系教授，研究领域涉及宇宙学、天体物理、引力理论、天体粒子物理等，发表有四百多篇学术论文。1986，他和弗兰克·梯普勒合著的《人择宇宙原理》（TheAnthropic CosmologicalPrinciple）成为该主题的经典著作。他见证了宇宙学自20世纪70年代末以来的进展，目前正活跃于宇宙学的前沿领域。他也是位知名科普作家，至今已出版二十多本数学、物理学、天文学方面的科普著作，包括《读心术的把戏》、《艺术宇宙》、《无限大的秘密》、《无之书》、《宇宙的起源》、《大自然的常数》、《不论》、《天空中的圆周率》等。2002年3月，由他编剧的话剧《无限》（Infinities）在米兰首演，广受好评，并荣获了当年意大利戏剧界最高荣誉“乌布奖”（PremioUbu）的“年度最佳剧目奖”。
John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Vice-President of Clare Hall College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His principal area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science, The Origin of the Universe; The Universe that Discovered Itself; The Book of Nothing; The Constants of Nature:from alpha to omega; The Infinite Book: a short guide to the boundless, timeless and endless, The Artful Universe Expanded, and New Theories of Everything.He is also the author of the award-winning play Infinities.
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