What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know?
There are many different versions of our creation story. This book tells the version according to modern science. It is a unique account, starting at the Big Bang and travelling right up to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later. Chapter by chapter, it sets out the current state of scientific knowledge: the origins of space and time; energy, mass, and light; galaxies, stars, and our sun; the habitable earth, and complex life itself. Drawing together
the physical and biological sciences, Baggott recounts what we currently know of our history, highlighting the questions science has yet to answer.
- ISBN10 0198707657
- ISBN13 9780198707653
- Publish Date 14 September 2017 (first published 8 October 2015)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2018
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English