Table of Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1: The First Cosmology[The Golden Age of the Gods] 1
Chapter 2: The First Cosmological Revolution[The Copernican Theory] 10
Chapter 3: The Second Cosmological Revolution[Hubble and the Big Bang] 25
Chapter 4: The Third Revolution Begins[The Universe Amok] 49
Chapter 5: The Music of the Spheres[The Cosmic Microwave Background] 63
Chapter 6: The Dark Universe[What’s the Matter with Matter?] 90
Chapter 7: Darker Still[The Enigma of Exotic Dark Matter] 103
Chapter 8: The Big Bang in Our Backyard[The Birth of Baryons] 116
Chapter 9: The Good Nus[The Exotic Neutrino] 132
Chapter 10: Supersymmetry[Fearlessly Framing the Laws of Matter] 150
Chapter 11: Seeing the Invisible[MACHOs, WIMPs, and Illuminating the Darkest Regions of the Universe] 163
Chapter 12: The Deepest Mystery in Physics[&Lambda, the Vacuum, and Inflation] 182
Chapter 13: Wrinkles in Spacetime[Gravitational Waves and the Early Universe] 199
Chapter 14: Beyond the Third Revolution[Voyage to the Ends of Time] 215
Appendix A: Tired Light Retired 225
Appendix B: Where Does Matter Come From? 229
Appendix C: Nobel Prizes in Physics–Past and Future 235
Appendix D: Some Experiments to Watch 241
Glossary 249
Select Bibliography 269
Acknowledgements 277
Index 279
