Origins :The Scientific Story of Creation

Jim Baggott (Author)

Paperback: 432 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press; Second edition (July 21 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780198826002

ISBN-13: 978-0198826002

Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 2.3 x 15.2 cm

Shipping Weight: 712 g

內容簡介

What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know?

There are many different versions of our creation story. This book tells the version according to modern science. It is a unique account, starting at the Big Bang and travelling right up to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later. Chapter by chapter, it sets out the current state of scientific knowledge: the origins of space and time; energy, mass, and light; galaxies, stars, and our sun; the habitable earth, and complex life itself. Drawing together the physical and biological sciences, Baggott recounts what we currently know of our history, highlighting the questions science has yet to answer.