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-Title: Once Upon A Universe. Not-so-Grimm Tales of Cosmology.
-Author:
Robert Gilmore.
-Publisher:
Copernicus/Springer Verlag.
-Pages:
12 + 228
-Illustrations:
B/W photos and graphics.
-Language:
English.
-Publication Date:
December 2003.
-ISBN: 0387955666

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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And no matter how diligently she searches, the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars! Clearly, she's not at home in her well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale, but instead in a strange new landscape that features quantum behavior, the wavelike properties of particles, and the Uncertainty Principle. She (and we) must have entered, in short, one of the worlds created by Robert Gilmore, the physicist and fabulist who brought us the classic "Alice in Quantumland." Whether he's recasting such classic tales as "Jack and the Quarkstalk," "Waking Beauty," or "Cinderenda and the Death of Stars," Gilmore shows us that there's more than one way to shed light on the strange profundities of modern physics and cosmology, and what they have to tell us about the nature of time and space and motion. Black holes, dying stars, traveling backward through time to the Big Bang-they're all here in accessible, instructive, and charmingly illustrated retellings.

(Extracted from the cover jacket).

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Introduction.
-1. The Prince and p.
-2. Snow White and the Particularly Little People.
-3. Ali Gori and the Cave of Night.
-4. Jack and the Starstalk.
-5. Waking Beauty.
-6. Cinderenda and the Death of Stars.
-Epilogue.
-Further Reading.
-Index.

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