Dan Hooper

Scientists in recent decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But we still know little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. At the Edge of Time focuses on what we have learned and are striving to understand about this mysterious period at the beginning of cosmic...

A graduate-level introduction to the interface between particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. This book explores the exciting interface between the fields of cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, and particle physics, at a level suitable for advanced undergraduate to graduate-level students as well as active researchers. Without assuming a strong background in particle physics or quantum field theory, the text is designed to...