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Summary: WRINKLES IN MY BROW...
Review: This book is utterly boring. It is really only about how George Smoot's team of scientists got the funding together and made the actual Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite. Too many names of people. This is just an autobiography of the people that made the project happen. If you like the sounds of that, go right ahead and buy it, you'll lap it up - but make no mistake, this is not popular science.By looking at the microwave spectrum of the sky, COBE revealed that the galaxies present today were merely inhomogeneities in the distribution of matter 300,000 years after the big bang. He takes 300 pages to convey what I've said in one sentence. The book should have been made half as long, then it would have been twice as interesting. At every stage throughout reading the book, I wondered when Smoot was just going to get on with it, but no the whole damn book is an autobiography written in first person. Smooty tries to make it suspenseful, but all I felt was impatience.
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Summary: Some common people questions about the universe origins.
Review: Well, it is hard to find a book like this. Smoot is simply great to describe in simple words some concepts that should be hard to understand for non-scientits.
The contents are undisputed, the style is fresh, the story is really fascinating. From one of the greatest minds of this century a book that no one should miss.
Sergio Bonfiglio
Italy
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