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Book Description:
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.
Only the author of the landmark novel Timescape could so plausibly take the reader behind the scenes of major scientific research, so boldly speculate about the consequences of paradigm-shifting discovery, and so vividly capture the intense human drama as the forces of academia, government, theology, and the mass media battle for control of a mysterious new reality. COSM is Gregory Benford at his provocative best, exploring ideas at the frontier of mankind's understanding, and posing profound questions about Creation, human destiny, and the riddle of godhood.
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- Science Fiction & Fantasy >> Authors, A-Z >> ( B ) >> Benford, Gregory
- Science Fiction & Fantasy >> Science Fiction >> General
- Science Fiction & Fantasy >> Science Fiction >> High Tech
Top Member Reviews
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.
Darya M. from MORGAN HILL, CA wrote on 2/22/2006...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.