{"product_id":"the-day-without-yesterday-lemaitre-einstein-and-the-birth-of-modern-cosmology-9781560259022","title":"The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology","description":"Sometimes our understanding of our universe is given a huge boost by one insightful thinker. Such a boost came in the first half of the twentieth century, when an obscure Belgian priest put his mind to deciphering the nature of the cosmos. Is the universe evolving to some unforeseen end, or is it static, as the Greeks believed? The debate has preoccupied thinkers from Heraclitus to the author of the Upanishads, from the Mayans to Einstein. The Day Without Yesterday covers the modern history of an evolving universe, and how Georges Lema?(R)e convinced a generation of thinkers to embrace the notion of cosmic expansion and the theory that this expansion could be traced backward to the cosmic origins, a starting point for space and time that Lema?(R)e called \"the day without yesterday.\" Lema?(R)e's skill with mathematics and the equations of relativity enabled him to think much more broadly about cosmology than anyone else at the time, including Einstein. Lema?(R)e proposed the expanding model of the universe to Einstein, who rejected it. Had Einstein followed Lema?(R)e's thinking, he could have predicted the expansion of the universe more than a decade before it was actually discovered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Boston native, John Farrell is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Clock and the Camshaft: And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can't Live Without\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A graduate of Harvard College with a B.A. in English and American Literature, Farrell has written for \u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAeon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSkeptic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCosmos Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForbes \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Tablet of London\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eDappled Things\u003c\/i\u003e, his poetry in \u003ci\u003ePenwood Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst Things \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eU.S. Catholic\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903604494610,"sku":"9781560259022","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6f3b9c1e-b34d-4ae9-9e0c-8db8c50f6d12.jpg?v=1738499022","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-day-without-yesterday-lemaitre-einstein-and-the-birth-of-modern-cosmology-9781560259022","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}