PREVIOUS generations would have killed for the kind of knowledge we have of the cosmos we live in. We know its principal content – 100 billion or so galaxies, one of which is our Milky Way – and we have a pretty good idea of where it came from, how it came to be the way it is and where it might be heading.
It is this story – the epic tale of the origin, evolution and fate of the universe – that is told in Evolving Cosmos, published by Cambridge University Press.
Govert Schilling, the Dutch science writer and occasional contributor to New…
