Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics

by Stephen Webb

Stephen Webb, author of WHERE IS EVERYBODY?, takes the interested amateur on a thrilling and enlightening tour of the amazing, even bizarre, new ideas of modern physics, including alternatives to the Big Bang, parallel universes, and an imaginary trip to the other side of the black hole.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Physics

320 pages, Hardcover

First published May 25, 2004

About the author

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Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Astronomy series and has published an undergraduate textbook on distance determination in astronomy and cosmology as well as several popular science books. His interest in the Fermi paradox combines lifelong interests in both science and science fiction.

Reviews

[Ted Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first read this work over 13 years ago with keen curiosity and pleasure. I think I might have understood it better then than now. I still find it terrific though clearly speculative, though it includes a lot of history in lay terms of theoretical physics as background linked with ever more imaginative speculation.

Well, apparently the world is not a hologram.

[Merilee]

I had decided not to read this book and was going to give it to Magda, but while I was travelling into to Toronto yesterday by train, to meet her and Karen (who's here from Germany!), I started reading it and have got to about page 45. Magda will have to wait;-)