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A fun book - in the style of the other "science thrillers": Medical thrillers by Robin Cook, Forensics thrillers by Patricia Cornwell, Infectious Disease thrillers by Richard Preston. This is a Physics thriller with all of the nitty-gritty details and the just-outside-the-realm-of-believable action of the others.

A very good cerebral yarn from Benford. Holding a universe in your hands! Maybe it's how we got here.

After an accident in a brilliant young physicist's most ambitious experiment,it appears: a wondrous sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing known to science.
Before long it will be clear that this object has opened a vista on an entirely different universe, a newborn cosmos whose existence will rock this world and test one woman to the limit: the physicist who has ignited this thrilling adventure herself!
The forces of academia, government, theology and the mass media battle for control of a mysterious new reality. Profound questions are raised about Creation, human destiny and the riddle of godhood...questions that push at the very frontier of mankind's understanding.