This comprehensive volume reviews the current theory and measurement of various parameters related to the evolution of the universe. Topics include inflation, s

Semi-autobiographical discussion of astronomy and astronomers, and history of astronomy and cosmology.--

Astronomy is an observational science, renewed and even revolutionized by new developments in instrumentation. With the resulting growth of multiwavelength inve

He shows that this theory can illuminate a wide variety of hitherto unresolved philosophical problems: these include the direction and flow of time, the nature