Table of Contents

1: A Very Short Introduction
2: The Great Debate
3: Our Island
4: The Expanding Universe
5: Across the Universe
6: The Origin of Galaxies
7: The Universe at Large
References & Further Reading
Index

About the Author

John Gribbin has a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge and is one of the best-known current popular science writers. His many books include the acclaimed The Universe: A Biography, In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, and Science: A History. He has written for all the UK broadsheet newspapers, regularly contributes to radio and television documentaries and debates, and also writes science fiction novels. He formerly worked
for Nature and New Scientist, and is presently a Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.