In 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 lies 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. Wrinkles 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 course
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 thefiery 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 as the steady state and big bang theories. And
now, Wrinkles in Time tells what really happened
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