E-audiobook
Once before time a whole story of the universe
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307875907 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0307875903 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 sound file : digital. - Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 12:23:52. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Jonathan Cowley. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 178158 KB; MP3 file size: 349100 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Cosmology Space and time |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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Summary:
In 2000, Martin Bojowald, then a twenty-seven-year-old postdoc at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum gravity--a combination of Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum mechanics--to create a simple model of the universe. Loop quantum cosmology, or LQC, was born, and with it, a theory that managed to do something even Einstein's theory of relativity had failed to do--illuminate the birth of the universe...
