{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Few questions grip the mind more forcefully than those about the creation of the universe, and since the discoveries of the 1920s it has been a primary goal of physicists to trace the history of the universe back to \"where it all came from\" the moment of creation in the Big Ban. This is the up-to-date story of the enormous growth in knowledge of the early universe and the important discoveries about that titanic explosion that took place 15 billion years ago."}, "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Includes index.\n\n6"}, "identifiers": {"librarything": ["138342"], "goodreads": ["1406459"]}, "title": "The moment of creation", "subtitle": "big bang physics from before the first millisecond to the present universe", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL20531A"}], "publish_date": "1983", "covers": [4225091], "local_id": ["urn:trent:0116301281600", "urn:phillips:31867000072483", "urn:gtu:32400001289127"], "lc_classifications": ["QB991.B54 T7 1983"], "ocaid": "momentofcreation0000tref", "publish_places": ["New York"], "subjects": ["Big bang theory", "Cosmology -- History", "Nuclear astrophysics"], "pagination": "vi, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. --", "source_records": ["marc:marc_laurentian/openlibrary.mrc:404820555:929", "marc:marc_ithaca_college/ic_marc.mrc:90856886:804", "marc:OpenLibraries-Trent-MARCs/tier5.mrc:66047082:820", "marc:marc_openlibraries_phillipsacademy/PANO_FOR_IA_05072019.mrc:46019967:1080", "ia:momentofcreation0000tref", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part14.utf8:174620444:737", "marc:marc_gtu/KLF IA Export 5-5-22.mrc:13231295:895", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-001.mrc:236992065:1262", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.00.20150123.full.mrc:411889430:2052", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_027.bib.mrc:247400023:2872"], "lccn": ["83009011"], "isbn_10": ["0684179636"], "by_statement": "James S. Trefil ; illustrations by Gloria Walters. --", "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "oclc_numbers": ["9575558"], "publishers": ["Scribner"], "key": "/books/OL21362016M", "number_of_pages": 234, "works": [{"key": "/works/OL118013W"}], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "latest_revision": 18, "revision": 18, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-11-02T08:23:00.699252"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-19T10:17:53.692689"}}