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008			930507s1993 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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049			_aSBIM
050	0	4	_aQB981
050	0	4	_aQB981.D252.W756 1993
100	1		_aSmoot, George, _e1
245	1	0	_aWrinkles in time / _cGeorge Smoot and Keay Davidson. _hPR
250			_afirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bW. Morrow _c(c)1993.
300			_avi, 331 pages : _billustrations (some color), map ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_a1 (pages 317-318) and index.
520	0		_aIn April 1992, a discovery was made that changed the way we view the world. Dr. George Smoot, distinguished cosmologist and adventurer, whose quest for cosmic knowledge had taken him from the Brazilian rain forest to the South Pole unveiled his momentous discovery, bringing to light the very nature of the universe. For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, for anyone who has ever longed to pull aside the fabric of the universe for a glimpse of what.
520	0		_alies behind it. Wrinkles in Time is the story of Smoot's search to uncover the cosmic seeds of the universe. Wrinkles in Time is the Double Helix of cosmology, an intimate look at the inner world of men and women who ask. "Why are we here?" It tells the story of George Smoot's dogged pursuit of the cosmic wrinkles in the frozen wastes of Antarctica, on mountaintops, in experiments borne aloft aboard high-altitude balloons, U-2 spy planes, and finally a space satellite.
520	0		_aWrinkles in Time presents the hard science behind the structured violence of the big bang theory through breathtakingly clear, lucid images and meaningful comparisons. Scientists and nonscientists alike can follow with rapt attention the story of how, in a fiery creation, wrinkles formed in space ultimately to become stars, galaxies, and even greater delicate structures. Anyone can appreciate the implications of a universe whose end is written in its beginnings - whose.
520	0		_acourse developed according to a kind of cosmic DNA, which guided the universe from simplicity and symmetry to ever-greater complexity and structure. As controversial as it may seem today, Wrinkles in Time reveals truths that, in an earlier century, would have doomed its proclaimers to the fiery stake. For four thousand years some people have accepted the Genesis account of cosmic origin; for most of this century, scientists debated two rival scientific explanations known.
520	0		_aas the steady state and big bang theories. And now, Wrinkles in Time tells what really happened.
530			_a2
650		0	_aCosmology.
700	1		_aDavidson, Keay.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell