by Timothy Ferris · Simon & Schuster · tapa dura · ISBN 9780684810201
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«The Whole Shebang» is Timothy Ferris's popular science essay, published by Simon & Schuster in hardback (393 pages, in English).
A journey through contemporary cosmology: the discovery of planets around other stars, Hubble images of the young universe, and the imprints of the Big Bang. Ferris explains relativity, quantum physics, dark matter, and inflationary models, and suggests our universe might be one among many.
First edition of 1997, with the full title The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report. Includes bibliographic references and index.
A popular science work for readers without scientific training who want to understand current debates in cosmology.
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Timothy Ferris is an American science writer. He is best known for Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), a history of astronomy which won the Science Writing Award. He also wrote The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (1997), a popular overview of cosmology. In The Science of Liberty (2010), he argues that scientific thinking played a role in democracy. Ferris has produced three PBS documentaries: The Creation of the Universe (1985), Life Beyond Earth (1999), and Seeing in the Dark (2007). He was a producer of the Voyager Golden Record, a sample of the sights and sounds of Earth sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft.
