The Unfinished Universe

Louise Young is the author of Earth's Aura, The Blue Planet, Sowing the Wind, and Power Over People (Updated Edition, Oxford, 1992). She is also the editor of Exploring the Universe, The Mystery of Matter, and Evolution of Man.

"Louise Young reveals the universe as it truly is--an unfolding flower that has yet to bloom in its full glory."--Paul Davies"Precisely because she is a scientific generalist, she has an overview that very few practitioners of a single specialty possess. She can put such things as the lifecycle of a star into contexts that a mere astrophysicist might never think of....[This book] may well convert a good many members of the general public. It will do so through its clarity, its stunning metaphors, its obvious condition of being well-informed, its sheer good writing....I found myselfstirred and moved, seeing the patterns of the universe in ways I am not accustomed to."--Noel Perrin, The Chicago Sun-Times"Informative, intelligent, and sensitive....In the end, it was the force of Ms. Young's imagery, not her logic and theories, that increased my awe of nature as I read The Unfinished Universe."--Alan Lightman, The New York Times"Young's book is strangely beautiful guide...for those who would think and wonder about the meaning of things that can be known and those that cannot."--James E. Lovelock, author of Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth