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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
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Steven Weinberg and Andrew Strominger
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library are thrilled to welcome Nobel Laureate STEVEN WEINBERG for a discussion of his groundbreaking work in physics and his books The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe and Third Thoughts: The Universe We Still Don't Know. He will be joined in conversation by ANDREW STROMINGER, prize-winning theoretical physicist and director of Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature.
Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the elements that forged stars, planets, and lifeforms, to the fundamental forces of physics, can be traced back to what happened in just the first three minutes of its life.
In this book, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg describes in wonderful detail what happened in these first three minutes. It is an exhilarating journey that begins with the Planck Epoch—the earliest period of time in the history of the universe—and goes through Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the Hubble Red Shift, and the detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background. These incredible discoveries all form the foundation for what we now understand as the "standard model" of the origin of the universe. The First Three Minutes examines not only what this model looks like, but also tells the exciting story of the bold thinkers who put it together.
Clearly and accessibly written, The First Three Minutes is a modern-day classic, an unsurpassed explanation of where it is we really come from.
