PREVIOUS generations would have killed for the kind of knowledge we have of the cosmos we live in. We know its principal content 鈥 100 billion or so galaxies, one of which is our Milky Way 鈥 and we have a pretty good idea of where it came from, how it came to be the way it is and where it might be heading.
It is this story 鈥 the epic tale of the origin, evolution and fate of the universe 鈥 that is told in Evolving Cosmos, published by Cambridge University Press.
Govert Schilling, the Dutch science writer and occasional contributor to New…
