An Infinity of Worlds
Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe

There is something rather odd about this book on cosmic inflation. Will Kinney assumes a considerable amount of foreknowledge in the reader - for example, he uses electron volts as a unit of energy without unpacking the concept and throws in everything from 'the unification of strong and electroweak......more

As an undergraduate going into a masters focussing on this topic in particular. I feel somewhat qualified to review this book. Firstly, the first 5 chapters were a slog even for me. I don’t know what it was about the writing style but he kept losing me. One of the pitfalls of this book is he introduc......more

This looks to be a very good account of inflation theory. Unfortunately, even though written in clear words and not formulas, it proved a bit too technical for me. I'm glad to have it, though, and hope to get back to it before too long after I've read more elsewhere.......more

A thorough astrophysics primer, going from the simple to the incredible complex over the course of the book. The diagrams are very, very beneficial in explaining the concepts, detailing the discussed concepts in easier to comprehend ways.......more

An Infinity of Worlds is a dense and thorough, though not long, overview of inflation, the scientific theory that the "Big Bang" was caused by the sudden expansion of the nascent universe by immense scales. Kinney, a physicist who has been intimately involved in the study of inflationary theorie......more