Dennis Overbye, Author Viking Books $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-89430-7
Of the many recent and imminent books on Einstein, Overbye's (Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos) may have the most compelling title and most fulfilling approach. An accomplished science writer, Overbye, deputy science editor of the New York Times, tells...
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Dennis Overbye, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (438p) ISBN 978-0-06-015964-1
Particle physicist Alan Guth's discovery in 1979 of the ``hyperexplosive bubbling'' of the earliest universe uncovered a major glitch in the Big Bang theory and implied that the cosmos may be incredibly vaster than astronomers had previously assumed.
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Dennis Overbye, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-092271-9
Unexpected discoveries, seething rivalries and inspired guesswork are all in a day's work for modern cosmologists, several of whom are profiled here. ``Overbye's personal narrative makes complex realms of conflicting theory and observation...
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