Wrinkles In Time
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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At the dawn of the 1990s, a team of scientists made one of the most staggering discoveries in the history of human knowledge — the detection of ancient ripples in the cosmic microwave background radiation, the faint echo of the Big Bang itself. Wrinkles in Time chronicles the decade-long scientific odyssey led by Nobel Prize-winning physicist George Smoot and his colleagues at NASA's COBE satellite project, detailing the extraordinary intellectual and technical struggle to map the earliest moments of the universe and uncover the primordial wrinkles that seeded the formation of galaxies, stars, and ultimately, life. Written with the narrative momentum of a scientific thriller, the book presents the human drama behind the equations — the rivalries, setbacks, and moments of breathtaking revelation that defined one of cosmology's greatest breakthroughs. Smoot and Davidson illustrate how this discovery fundamentally reshaped our understanding of creation, bridging the gap between cutting-edge astrophysics and the grandest philosophical questions humanity has ever posed. Rigorous yet utterly accessible, Wrinkles in Time leaves the reader standing at the edge of the observable universe, wondering what other cosmic secrets remain just beyond our grasp.
Author: George Smoot And Keay Davidson
Format: Paperback
Published: 1993, Little, Brown and Company / TSP
Genre: Science
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the dawn of the 1990s, a team of scientists made one of the most staggering discoveries in the history of human knowledge — the detection of ancient ripples in the cosmic microwave background radiation, the faint echo of the Big Bang itself. Wrinkles in Time chronicles the decade-long scientific odyssey led by Nobel Prize-winning physicist George Smoot and his colleagues at NASA's COBE satellite project, detailing the extraordinary intellectual and technical struggle to map the earliest moments of the universe and uncover the primordial wrinkles that seeded the formation of galaxies, stars, and ultimately, life. Written with the narrative momentum of a scientific thriller, the book presents the human drama behind the equations — the rivalries, setbacks, and moments of breathtaking revelation that defined one of cosmology's greatest breakthroughs. Smoot and Davidson illustrate how this discovery fundamentally reshaped our understanding of creation, bridging the gap between cutting-edge astrophysics and the grandest philosophical questions humanity has ever posed. Rigorous yet utterly accessible, Wrinkles in Time leaves the reader standing at the edge of the observable universe, wondering what other cosmic secrets remain just beyond our grasp.