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2) The big bang
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Explains how scientists' observations of the stars led to the development of the big bang theory, a theory of how our universe was formed.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Appears on list
Description
"Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and author of Hyperspace and The Future of Humanity, tells the story of the greatest quest in science. When Newton discovered the laws of motion and gravity, he unified the rules of heaven and earth. From then on, physicists have been discovering new forces and incorporating them into ever-greater theories. But the major breakthroughs of the 20th century--relativity and quantum mechanics--are incompatible,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Introduces the big bang theory, describing how the universe began and how elementary particles combined to form our solar system and eventually Earth's simplest organisms, which in turn evolved to becomes complex forms of life and human beings.
Author
Description
In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku takes readers on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe. Kaku describes the extraordinary advances that have transformed cosmology over the last century forcing scientists around the world to rethink our understanding of the birth of the universe, and its ultimate fate.
Author
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An illustrated discussion of the formation of the universe since the big bang, covering topics such as cosmology, planets, and minerals, and analyzes how humans are comprised of the same atoms that were once a part of stars.
Pub. Date
[1985]
Description
This 1985 documentary interprets the work of astronomers and physicists expertly and simply, using special effects, computer graphics, a musical score, and interviews with Stephen Hawking and other scientists to explain the mysteries of the universe's creation in the Big Bang, 15 billion years ago.
Series
Stephen Hawking's universe volume 1
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
The latest advances in cosmological thought presented by one of today's most renowned scientists. Program one presents the history of theories on the universe as it is known today. Program two delves into the beginning of the universe.
19) Hyperspace
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Experience the beautiful, astonishing and ofter dangerous phenomena of the universe as state-of-the art computer graphics take you from the vast clouds where stars are born to the edge of a planet-guzzling black hole. Learn how every molecule of our bodies originated in the Big Bang. Will scientists transform a planet like Mars into a new Earth? See revolutionary forms of transportation that could let us hop between galaxies.