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Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe

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內容簡介 International Bestseller"One of the most exhilarating and absorbing books ever written about science. . . . An adventure story of a rare kind, a classic." --New ScientistBy the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, a fascinating history of the universe and a breathtaking account of George Smoot's quest to prove the Big Bang theory--the work that won him the Noble Prize and which Stephen Hawking called "The scientific discovery of the century, if not all time."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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最佳賣點 : An engrossing tale of two decades of adventure in exotic and dangerous climes, where Smoot and his colleagues used radiotelescopes in search of the biggest and oldest objects anywhere--the "seeds" that spawned our universe following the Big Bang. Photos and illustrations.