Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Science Masters Series)

Author: (USA) Martin Rees, written by Shi Yunli translated
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Publishing Time: 2001-11-01
Features: This book is one of the "Great Scientists Series" published by the American Brockman Company, reflecting the cutting-edge scientific issues at the turn of the century. Simultaneously launched in more than 20 countries and regions worldwide, this book has more than 20 different translations. Generally, while considering predictions of the situation 20 or even 100 years in the future, it is not necessarily difficult to speak. If someone makes a well-grounded prediction of what the world will be like after a year with 1 million zeros appended (the unit, of course, is light-years); or speculates about how the world, when it was just a decimal point followed by 43 zeros in size, vibrated in a ten-dimensional space in an instant so short that it had more than 43 zeros after the decimal point, our limited imagination and understanding would face tremendous challenges. As an authoritative cosmologist, the author, with his profound insight, connects numerous seemingly unrelated discoveries in cosmology together with just six digits. For these two questions that humanity has been asking for thousands of years—where do we come from and where are we going—the author provides the most thorough answers to date.