Is the Universe Still Growing?: From Big Bang and Hubble's Discovery to Dark Energy, Accelerating Expansion, Ultimate Fate of ... a That Has Never Stopped Growing: 2

The universe has been growing since the first instant of the Big Bang, and today it is expanding faster than ever before, driven by a mysterious repulsive force called dark energy that science cannot yet fully explain. This book tells the complete story of cosmic expansion - from the static universe Einstein assumed to be eternal, through Edwin Hubble's revolutionary discovery that galaxies are rushing away from us in all directions, to the stunning 1998 observation that the expansion is actually speeding up. Along the way it explores the fierce ongoing disagreement between physicists over the precise rate of expansion known as the Hubble constant, the possible futures awaiting a universe headed toward a Big Freeze, Big Rip, or unexpected reversal, and the grand theoretical landscape of cosmic inflation and the multiverse. Written for curious adult readers with no prior background in physics or mathematics, it delivers a thorough and accurate account of one of the most profound questions in modern science: where is the universe going, and will it ever stop?