BOOKS
What’s Eating the Universe?
Paul Davies Allen Lane £16.99 • HB
It is little more than a century since the nature of gravitation, the abstractness of the quantum world and the true extent of the Universe were first perceived. But in that short time, the progress in our cosmological understanding has been staggering. We have deciphered the earliest moments and subsequent history of the Universe to such an extent that our insights about the origins of our own planet pale in comparison. Although this insight has been astounding, there are of course many mysteries still occupying modern astrophysics and cosmology.
In this rather short book, cosmologist Paul Davies takes us on a
