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In the Beginning: After COBE and Before the Big Bang
In the Beginning After COBE and Before the Big Bang
Author: John Gribbin
On April 23, 1992, NASA's $150 million COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite made one of the most monumental scientific breakthroughs of the century: the discovery of the long-sought "ripples in the fabric of space-time," brief fluctuations in microwave radiation still echoing from the first trillionth of a second after the c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316328333
ISBN-10: 0316328332
Publication Date: 1993
Pages: 274
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Publisher: Little, Brown
Book Type: Hardcover
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buzzby avatar reviewed In the Beginning: After COBE and Before the Big Bang on + 6062 more book reviews
I started this, but it's obvious his fascination is speculating on what happened before the Big Bang, and I have enough problems speculating about where I left the remote 5 minutes ago (and usually I have a better shot of learning the true answer). It was written in 1993, long a go in Astro-Physical Learning Curve Time, and very soon after the Background Radiation was studied in detail, I get the impression the speculation on pre-Big Bang reality has moved in other directions.


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