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