宇宙最初三分钟：关于宇宙起源的现代观点（史蒂文·温伯格） The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Updated)

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 224 pages

Publisher:Basic Books

Imprint:Basic Books

ISBN:9780465024377

Published:18 Aug 1993

Weight:186g

Dimensions:136 x 204 x 35 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在宇宙背景热辐射发现约10年之后，《The First Three Minutes》的理论已在大学里进行讲授，这是科学的进步。这本科普读物为1979年诺贝尔物理奖得主，美国物理学家和宇宙学家史蒂文．温伯格在1977年写的一本畅销书。此书被公认为科普读物的里程碑。作为一位知名专家，温伯格在书中向世人描绘了一幅完全令人信服的宇宙起源图，包括在大爆炸之后仅仅数秒或几分钟内出现的详细过程。

温伯格在《The First Three Minutes》的结尾处写道：“不管所有这些问题可能如何得到解决，也不论哪一个宇宙模型被证明为正确的，我们都不会从中得到什么慰藉。人类总是不可抗拒地认为，我们和宇宙有某种特殊的关系，认为人类的生命不应该是追溯到一开始的三分钟的一连串偶然事件的多少带有笑剧性质的产物，而是从宇宙的开始就以某种方式存在了。我写到这些话时，正好在从旧金山至波士顿的回家途中飞越俄明上空，大地在下面看起来柔软而舒适，浮云处处，公路纵横，夕阳西下，积雪泛红，很难理解这只不过是一个充满敌意的宇宙中的一小部分，更无法想象现在的宇宙是从一个难以言传的陌生的早期状态演化而来，而又面临着无限冰冷的，或者是炽热难耐的末日。宇宙愈可理解，也就愈索然无味。

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic.

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.

作者简介

史蒂芬温伯格1933年出生，1954年毕业于康奈尔大学，1979年因弱电统一理论与格拉肖和萨拉姆分享当年诺贝尔物理学奖。他是美国科学院院士、文学和科学院院士，英国皇家学会外籍会员，国家天文学会会员，美国哲学和科学史学会会员，美国中世纪学会会员。曾任美国军备控制和裁军机构顾问，美国防御分析研究所顾问等职。他的《广义相对论与引力论》《The First Three Minutes》《终极理论之梦》等书曾风行世界 。

Steven Weinberg won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. He is the Josey Regental Professor of Science at the University of Texas in Austin and the author of many books, including Dreams of a Final Theory and To Explain the World.