Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe
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ISBN: 0061344443 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, September 2007
Provides a provocative and personal saga of two adventure-laden decades of discovery in which the author, an astrophysicist, and his colleagues searched for the universe's "seeds" and the nature of existence itself. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science," a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. In his search he struggled against time, the elements, and the forces of ignorance and bureaucratic insanity. Finally, after years of research, Smoot and his dedicated team of Berkeley researchers succeeded in proving the unprovable'uncovering, inarguably and for all time, the secrets of the creation of the universe. Wrinkles in Time describes this startling discovery that would usher in a new scientific age'and win Smoot the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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