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100 1 $aLevin, Janna.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2001028833
245 10 $aHow the universe got its spots :$bdiary of a finite time in a finite space /$cJanna Levin.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c2002.
300 $a208 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $g1.$tIs the universe infinite or is it just really big? -- $g2.$tInfinity -- $g3.$tNewton, 300 years and Einstein -- $g4.$tSpecial relativity -- $g5.$tGeneral relativity -- $g6.$tQuantum chance and choice -- $g7.$tDeath and black holes -- $g8.$tLife and the big bang -- $g9.$tBeyond Einstein -- $g10.$tAdventures in Flatland and hyperspace -- $g11.$tTopology: links, locks, loops -- $g12.$tThrough the looking glass -- $g13.$tWonderland in 3D -- $g14.$tMirrors in the sky -- $g15.$tHow the universe got its spots -- $g16.$tThe ultimate prediction -- $g17.$tScars of creation -- $g18.$tThe shape of things to come.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"In prose, Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated access to the astounding findings of contemporary theoretical physics and makes tangible the contours of space and time - those very real curves along which apples fall and planets orbit." "Levin guides the reader through the observations and thought-experiments that have enabled physicists to begin charting the universe. She introduces the cosmic archaeology that makes sense of the pattern of hot spots left over from the big bang, a pursuit on the verge of discovering the shape of space itself. And she explains the topology and the geometry of the universe now coming into focus - a strange map of space full of black holes, chaotic flows, time warps, and invisible strings. Levin advances the controversial idea that this map is edge-less but finite - that the universe is huge but not unending - a radical revelation that would provide the ultimate twist to the Copernican revolution by locating our precise position in the cosmos."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aLevin, Janna$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aCosmology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033169
650 0 $aCosmology$vPopular works.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101803
650 0 $aMathematicians$zUnited States$vCorrespondence.
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/prin031/2001099369.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/2001099369.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin022/2001099369.html
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