PDF-(BOOS)-Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

How did everything around usthe air the land the sea and the starsoriginate What is the source of order form and structure characterizing all material things These are just some of the grand scientific questions Eric J Chaisson author of the classic work Cosmic Dawn explores in his enthralling and illuminating history of the universe Explaining new discoveries and a range of cuttingedge ideas and theories Chaisson provides a creative and coherent synthesis of current scientific thinking on the universes beginnings He takes us on a tour of the seven ages of the cosmos from the formless era of radiation through the origins of human culture Along the way he examines the development of the most microscopic and the most immense aspects of our universe and the complex ways in which they interactDrawing on recent breakthroughs in astrophysics and biochemistry Chaisson discusses the contemporary scientific view that all objectsfrom quarks and quasars to microbes and the human mindare interrelated Researchers in all the natural sciences are beginning to identify an underlying pattern penetrating the fabric of existencea sweepingly encompassing view of the formation structure and function of all objects in our multitudinous universe Moreover as Chaisson demonstrates by deciphering the scenario of cosmic evolution scientists can also determine how living organisms managed to inhabit the land generate language and create cultureEpic of Evolution offers a stunning view of how various changes operating across almost incomprehensible domains of space and nearly inconceivable stretches of time and through the evolutionary combination of necessity and chance have given rise to our galaxy our star our planet and ourselves. 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