Book Description:
This new and insightful book promotes a better understanding of how each person, and God, fit into a vast universe composed of billions of galaxies. The book explains that the universe follows very clearly defined laws and that we can describe the unfolding of the universe almost from the very beginning - a tiny fraction of a second after it started. Furthermore, the book examines the fact that there is never any certainty in science and that a true scientist must be willing to accept any hypothesis. Similarly, this viewpoint corresponds with a person's belief in God.

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Table of Contents:
Introduction

Part I. Physics of the Structure of the Universe

Chapter 1. Our View of the Universe Changes,pp.3-9

Chapter 2. The End of Classical Determinism,pp.10-15

Chapter 3. Remarkable Discoveries at at the End of the 19th Century,pp.17-26

Chapter 4. The Quantum Hypothesis,pp.27-33

Chapter 5. Reading the Book of Nature,pp.34-39

Chapter 6. The Modern Atom,pp.41-46

Chapter 7. The Particle Zoo,pp.47-55

Chapter 8. Neutrinos and Supernovae,pp.57-59

Chapter 9. Quarks and Leptons,pp.61-71

Chapter 10. Symmetries and Fields,pp.73-78

Chapter 11. How Does the Force between Particles Take Place through the Exchange of Photons or Gluons?,pp.79-83

Part II. The Cosmos

Chapter 12. On Galaxies,pp.87-91

Chapter 13. The Universe is Expanding,pp.93-96

Chapter 14. Evidence for the Big Bang,pp.97-104

Chapter 15. Before the Big Bang,pp.105-108

Chapter 16. Will the Universe End in a Big Crunch,pp.109-112

Chapter 17. Dark Matter,pp.113-116

Chapter 18. Supersymmetry,pp.117-119

Chapter 19. Puzzles,pp.121-126

Chapter 20. Inflation,pp.127-133

Index