Full name: How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

Author: Janna Levin Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781400032723 1400032725

With this question, the gifted young cosmologist Janna Levin not only announces the central theme of her intriguing and controversial new book but establishes herself as one of the most direct and unorthodox voices in contemporary science. For even as she sets out to determine how big "really big" may be, Levin gives us an intimate look at the day-to-day life of a globe-trotting physicist, complete with jet lag and romantic disturbances. Nimbly synthesizing geometry, topology, chaos and string theories, Levin shows how the pattern of hot and cold spots left over from the big bang may one day reveal the size and shape of the cosmos. She does so with such originality, lucidity - and even poetry - that becomes a thrilling and deeply personal communication between a scientist and the lay reader. Similar books: A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss Endless Universe by Paul J. Steinhardt The Last Three Minutes by Paul Davies The Book of Universes by John D. Barrow Many Worlds in One by Alex Vilenkin The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene Wrinkles in Time by George Smoot In Search of the Big Bang by John Gribbin Alpha and Omega by Charles Seife Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees The 4 Percent Universe by Richard Panek The Origin Of The Universe by John D. Barrow Before the Beginning by Martin Rees The Inflationary Universe by Alan Guth The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson