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The universe : leading scientists explore the origin, mysteries, and future of the cosmos / edited by John Brockman.

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New York : Harper Perennial, c2014.

Scientists -- Interviews.

Electronic Resource

http://www.edge.org

9780062296085 (pbk.) :

0062296086 (pbk.)

xii, 379 pages ; 21 cm

A golden age of cosmology / Alan Guth -- The cyclic universe / Paul Steinhardt -- The inflationary universe / Alan Guth -- A balloon producing balloons producing balloons / Andrei Linde -- Theories of the brane / Lisa Randall -- The cyclic universe / Neil Turok -- Why does the universe look the way it does? / Sean Carroll -- In the matrix / Martin Rees -- Think about nature / Lee Smolin -- The landscape / Leonard Susskind (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Smolin vs. Susskind : the anthropic principle / Lee Smolin, Leonard Susskind (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Science is not about certainty / Carlo Rovelli (with an introduction by Lee Smolin) -- The energy of empty spaces that isn't zero / Lawrence Krauss -- Einstein : an Edge symposium / Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Paul Steinhardt (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- Einstein and Poincaré / Peter Galison -- Thinking about the universe on the larger scales / Raphael Bousso (with an introduction by Leonard Sus[s]kind) -- Quantum monkeys / Seth Lloyd -- The Nobel Prize and after / Frank Wilczek -- Who cares about fireflies? / Steven Strogatz (with an introduction by Alan Alda) -- Constructor theory / David Deutsch -- A theory of roughness / Benoit Mandelbrot (with an introduction by John Brockman).

Collects writings from several leading theoretical physicists and cosmologists that offer an overview of our scientific understanding of the universe as it stands today.

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