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1、CREATIONTheStoryoftheOriginandEvolutionoftheUniverseOTHERBOOKSBYBARRYPARKEREINSTEIN'SDREAMTheSearchforaUnifiedTheoryoftheUniverseSEARCHFORASUPERTHEORYFromAtomstoSuperstringsCREATIONTheStoryoftheOriginandEvolutionoftheUniverseBarryParkerDrawingsbyLoriScoff
2、ieldSPRINGERSCIENCE+BUSINESSMEDIA,LLCM2DDD3D22CiDDlLibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationDataParker,BarryR.Creation:thestoryoftheoriginandevolutionoftheuniverse/BarryR.Parker;drawingsbyLoriScoffield.p.em.Bibliography:p.Includesindex.ISBN978-0-306-42952-
3、1ISBN978-1-4899-3332-4(eBook)DOI10.1007/978-1-4899-3332-41.Cosmology.I.Scoffield,Lori.II.Title.QB981.P29198888-17893523.1-dc19CIPFirstPrinting-August1988SecondPrinting-July1989©1988BarryParkerOriginallypublishedbyPlenumPublishingCorporation,NewYorkin1988S
4、oftcoverreprintofthehardcover1stedition1988AllrightsreservedNopartofthisbookmaybereproduced..storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical.photocopying,microfilming,recording,orotherwise,withoutwrittenpermissionfromtheP
5、ublisherPrefaceIrememberoncewatchingapresentationofthecreationoftheuniverseinaplanetarium.Itwasafascinatingexperience:lightsflashing,particlesappearingtorushbyasanexplosiveroarechoedthroughouttheplanetarium.Thensuddenly...black•ness.Andafterafewseconds...
6、tinylights--starsblinkingintoexistence.Itriedtoimaginemyselfactuallygoingbacktothisevent.Wasthisreallywhatitwaslike?Itwasaninterestingfacsimile,butfarfromwhattherealthingwouldhavebeenlike.Thecreationoftheuniverseisaneventthatisimpossibletoimagineaccuratel
7、y.Fortunately,thishasnotdiscouragedpeo•plefromwonderingwhatitwaslike.InCreationIhaveattemptedtotakeyoubacktothebegin•ning-thebigbangexplosion-sothatyoucanwatchtheuni•versegrowandevolve.Startingwiththefirstfractionofasec•ond,Itracetheuniversefromitsinitial
8、dramaticexpansionthroughtotheformationofthefirstnucleiandatoms.FromhereIgototheformationofgalaxiesandthecuriousdistribu•tiontheyhavetakeninspace.FinallyItalkabouttheformationofelementsinstars,andthefirstlifeonthepla