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A fascinating, surprisingly accessible and altogether human collection of conversations with today's leading cosmologists...Origins is composed of a lucid 49-page introduction to the field of cosmology, followed by question and answer interviews with 27 prominent cosmologists...Concepts...may stagger the average reader on first impact. Lightman is perfectly at ease with them. Arcane cosmic phenomena...are meat and drink to him. Readers lucky enough to sit near him at this intellectual banquet table will share the physicist's exquisite pleasure in the feast.Lightman, Alan P. is the author of 'Origins The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists' with ISBN 9780674644717 and ISBN 0674644719.
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