Some References for Cosmology: Books and Web Talks

Having viewed a number of Alex Filippenko’s cosmology talks at UC Irvine OLLI at the end of his Teaching Company lectures, I wanted to list some general public books and web lectures on the topic.

Books:  (Even though I’m referencing Kindle, there often is a Kindle app for most smart phones and tablets, or you can search on Barnes and Noble).  I am citing this or last year’s books, but there are earlier ones by these same authors also.  Note that for authors to keep producing a string of books in these areas, they often have to proceed to more and more speculative ideas.

Lawrence Krauss:  Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing ($14 Amazon, $12 Kindle, Nook)

Lisa Randall: Knocking on Heaven’s Door ($11 paperback,  $10 Kindle).  I’ll also add her new book on the newly discovered Higgs – Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space ($3 Kindle).

Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality:  Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos ($12 paperback, $13 Kindle).

Leonard Susskind:  The Cosmic Landscape (2006)

Web Lectures:

David Kirkby (UCI):  Physical Sciences Breakfast Talk to appear on www.physsci.uci.edu/outreach/lectures

Alex Filippenko (Beckman Distinctive Voices series):  Youtube: Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe

Lawrence Krauss:  Youtube: Something From Nothing?; and Life, the Universe and Nothing

Lisa Randall:  Youtube: Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Steven Weinberg:  Youtube: Higgs, dark matter and supersymmetry: What the Large Hadron Collider will tell us

 

About Dennis SILVERMAN

I am a retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at U C Irvine. For two decades I have been active in learning about energy and the environment, and in reporting on those topics for a decade. For the last four years I have added science policy. Lately, I have been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic of our times.
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