{"product_id":"once-upon-a-universe-notsogrimm-tales-of-cosmology-9780387955667","title":"Once Upon a Universe: Not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Once upon a time there was no Universe \" began the Storyteller. . . .\"  First Snow White encounters one of the Little People  then one of the Even Smaller People  and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And no matter how diligently she searches  the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars! Clearly  shes not at home in her well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale  but instead in a strange new landscape that features quantum behavior  the wavelike properties of particles  and the Uncertainty Principle. She (and we) must have entered  in short  one of the worlds created by Robert Gilmore  the physicist and fabulist who brought us the classic \"Alice in Quantumland.\"  Whether hes recasting such classic tales as \"Jack and the Quarkstalk \" \"Waking Beauty \" or \"Cinderenda and the Death of Stars \" Gilmore shows us that theres more than one way to shed light on the strange profundities of modern physics and cosmology  and what they have to tell us about the nature of time and space and motion. Black holes  dying stars  traveling backward through time to the Big Bang - theyre all here in accessible  instructive  and charmingly illustrated retellings.  Robert Gilmore has published three previous books with Copernicus  \"Alice in Quantumland \" \"Scrooges Cryptic Carol \" and \"The Wizard of Quarks.\" He is a Visiting Research Fellow  with a special focus on the public understanding of science  at Bristol University in England. He has also worked in particle physics at Brookhaven  Stanford  and CERN in Geneva.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648168452149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0387955666","price":33.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780387955667.jpg?v=1781711315","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/once-upon-a-universe-notsogrimm-tales-of-cosmology-9780387955667","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}