Cosmology and 21st-Century Culture

Nancy Ellen Abrams is a lawyer, writer, and performance artist, and her husband Joel R. Primack is a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. They have been teaching a course at UCSC on Cosmology and Culture for 6 years. Primack currently serves on the executive committee of the American Physical Society Division of Astrophysics and chairs the advisory committee to the AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. CREDIT: ALLAN …

…with speakers will be included on a CD-ROM; for further information see www.aaas.org/spp/dser/. ||Another example: J. R. Primack, N. E. Abrams, Tikkun 16, 59 (2001). #For a more detailed explanation of current thinking about the initial conditions for the Big Bang, see, e.g., A. H. Guth, The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997); M. Rees, Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997).