Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This account presents these theories in their historical contexts, from little known hypotheses from the past to modern developments such as the theory of supe[...]

For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transformed into a branch of physics. With this remarkably rapid change came a theory that would finally lend empirical support to many long-held beli[...]

Den kan være ilde hørt, hel og halv, og den hele får du fra børn og fulde folk. Der er sandt at sige tale om sandheden. Eller måske sandheder, for der er flere udgaver. Astronomer mener ikke længere, Pluto er en planet, men det gjorde de engang. Nogle tror, Jesus er sandheden, andre Koranen. U[...]

This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the book covers all the major events in theor[...]