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Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2006 NASA Hubble and Spitzer telescopes combined to make these shape-shifting galaxies taking on the form of a giant mask. The icy blue eyes are actually the cores of two merging galaxies, called NGC 2207 and IC 2163, and the mask is their spiral arms. NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/Vassar   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Book of Universes: 2of2:  Hardcover – International Edition, March 7, 2011. by John D. Barrow (https://www.amazon.com/John-D-Barrow/e/B000APHBTI/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)   (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Book-Universes-Exploring-Limits-Cosmos/dp/0393343111/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460855140&sr=1-1&keywords=BOOK+OF+UNIVERSES John D. Barrow is professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Our story will encounter universes where the laws of physics can change from time to time and from one region to another, universes that have extra hidden dimensions of space and time, universes that are eternal, universes that live inside black holes, universes that end without warning, colliding universes, inflationary universes, and universes that come into being from something else -- or from nothing at all. Gradually, we will find ourselves introducing the latest and the best descriptions of the Universe we see around us today, together with the concept of the 'Multiverse' -- the universe of all possible universes -- that modern theories of physics lead us to contemplate. These are the most fantastic and far-reaching speculations in the whole of science. Other cosmology and astronomy books focus on particular topics -- dark matter, dark energy, the beginning of the universe, inflation, life-supporting coincidences, or the end of the universe -- but this book introduces the reader to whole universes in a coherent and unified way.