Cosmology & The Universe

The theory presented in this book is a combination of Einstein's original special and general relativity, but now the starting point is not the pro...

In 1981 Robert John Russell founded what would become the leading center of research at the interface of science and religion, the Center for Theol...

Recent discoveries in astronomy, especially those made with data collected by satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Wilkinson Micro...

How do we resolve conflicts when fundamental sources of knowledge and belief—such as science and theology—are involved? In God’s Two Books, Kenneth...

Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience of the world, and yet they are also the most perplexing. Does time really flow, ...

The birth of the Universe, and its subsequent evolution, is an exciting blend of Cosmology, Particle Physics and Thermodynamics. This book, with it...

This book discusses cosmology from both an observational and a strong theoretical perspective. The first part focuses on gravitation, notably the e...

The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than ei...

Infinite Minds develops a Platonic creation story. The cosmos exists just because of the ethical need for it. We, and all the intricate structures ...

Of value to the general scientific public, this is the first book in the world scientific literature devoted to the Casimir effect. This topic has ...

This book provides a comprehensive, critical study of the oldest and most famous argument for the existence of God: the Cosmological Argument. Prof...

A hilarious guide to what’s real (and what’s not) in our vast, beautiful (and terrifying) universe.Embark on a cosmic journey through Cosmic Bullsh...

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the uni...

This is the 2nd edition of a highly successful title on this fascinating and complex subject. Concentrating primarily on the theory behind the orig...

Introduction to Astronomy & Cosmology is a modern undergraduate textbook, combining both the theory behind astronomy with the very latest devel...

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the uni...

Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley and Hubble: these astronomers applied ideas drawn from physics to astronomy and made d...

Do you want to learn about the physical origin of the Universe, but don’t have the rest of eternity to read up on it? Do you want to know what scie...

Questions about the heavens are as old as civilization, perhaps as old as language itself. Is this universe infinite? What are the lights we see in...

Applications of quantum field theoretical methods to gravitational physics, both in the semiclassical and the full quantum frameworks, require a ca...

This well known and widely used landmark text explores the universal spontaneous generation of magnetic fields in astronomical bodies and the agita...

A substantially revised and updated edition of the introductory textbook on cosmology for undergraduates. While designed as the main text for a cou...