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FIRST DAWN - ROBERTO BATTISTON GEBUNDEN

From the very first moments of the universe to the birth of the first star  our solar system 
and our planet: a physicist traces the known and the unknown. Since the beginning of the
twentieth century  the horizon of our knowledge about the universe has expanded to encompass
the infinitesimally small—and the infinitely vast. In First Dawn  physicist Roberto Battiston
takes readers on a journey through space and time  to the boundaries of our knowledge and
beyond. From the violence of the Big Bang and the birth of the first star  hundreds of millions
of years later  to the emergence of our solar system  the dawn of life on Earth  and the
possibility of life on other planets  Battiston maps what we know about the universe and how we
came to know it—cautioning us  however  that what we know is a minuscule fraction of what there
is to know. Battiston outlines discoveries by some of the greatest theoretical physicists of
the twentieth century  including Einstein  Bohr  Schrödinger  Heisenberg  Fermi  and Hubble 
discusses the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter  and considers what it means for the
universe to have emerged out of nothing. The ignition of the first star illuminated a universe
that had been expanding  unobserved and unobservable  in the dark. Drawing on his own research
Battiston discusses the birth of the Sun  the formation of planets  the origins of life 
interstellar migrations  extrasolar planets  black holes  gravitational waves  and much more.
But  he warns  for some questions—the dimensions of the universe  for example  or the existence
of other universes—we are destined to remain in the realm of speculation.

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