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New Frontiers 1
1 How Far Out Can We See?: Voyage to the Edge of the Known Universe 7
2 How Was the Universe Born?: Revealing the Dawn of Time 22
3 How Far Away Will the Edge Get?: The Discovery of the Accelerating Universe 39
4 Why Does the Universe Seem So Smooth?: The Inflationary Era 52
5 What Is Dark Energy?: Will It Tear Space Apart? 67
6 Do We Live in a Hologram?: Exploring the Boundaries of Information 82
7 Are There Alternatives to Inflation?: Extra Dimensions and the Big Bounce 96
8 What Builds Structure in the Universe?: The Search for Dark Matter 110
9 What Is Tugging on Galaxies?: The Mysteries of Dark Flow and the Great Attractor 125
10 What Is the “Axis of Evil”?: Investigating Strange Features of the Cosmic Background 137
11 What Are the Immense Blasts of Energy from the Farthest Reaches of Space?: Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Quest for Cosmic Dragons 148
12 Can We Journey to Parallel Universes?: Wormholes as Gateways 161
13 Is The Universe Constantly Splitting into Multiple Realities?: The Many-Worlds Hypothesis 174
14 How Will the Universe End?: With a Bang, Bounce, Crunch, Rip, Stretch, or Whimper? 188
15 What Are the Ultimate Limits of Our Knowledge about the Cosmos? 204
Acknowledgments 217
Notes 219
Further Reading 225
Index 229