THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE

THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE

John D. Barrow

1994

150 pages

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, The Orion Publishing Group, London

ISBN 0297814974

RM15 (discount) / 9.99 pound

I bought this book during Times Bookshop sale at City Square in 2006.

About the author, John D. Barrow graduated in mathematics from Durham University and received his DPhil in astrophysics from Oxford. His principal research interest is in the early history of the universe. He wrote The Left Hand of Creation, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, The World Within the World, Theories of Everything, and Pi in the Sky.

This book is a state-of-the-art account of our ideas about the beginning of the universe, and the evidence for them. There was immense excitement in the scientific community in 1992 when the COBE satellite first sent back data revealing the imprints of events in the universe's early history in the radio waves from the Big Bang.

Prof. Barrow describes the picture of the universe that those findings illuminate, and goes on to explain how they allow us to reach back and shed light upon events at the dawn of time. We learn how our understanding of what lies in outer space is bound up with the character of the smallest particle of matter, and how thin is the thread by which our own existence hangs.

Here comes the questions:

What does it meanto say that the universe appeared out of 'nothing'?

Did it need a beginning and will it ever end?

Why do we think that most of the universe is invisble?

GOD EXIST BEFORE TIME, SPACE & MATTER.

GOD IS NOT SUBJECTED TO SPACE & TIME.