Introduction.- Character sketches.- Signs of the times.- Signs and wonders.- It’s Greek to me.- Meaningless marks on paper.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.
Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a
PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester,
Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He
is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Astronomy series and
has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe -
The Cosmological Distance Ladder (1999) as well as several popular
science books, among them Out of this World - Colliding
Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics
in 2004, New Eyes on the Universe - Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the
Tools We Need to Solve Them in 2012, and, in 2015, the second
edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS
EVERYBODY? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the
Problem of Extraterrestrial, published as part of Springer’s
Science and Fiction series.
His most recent book is All the Wonder that Would Be - Exploring
Past Notions of the Future(2017), again published as part of
Springer’s Science and Fiction series.
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