Cosm - Softcover

Benford, Gregory; Bendord, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380790521 ISBN 13: 9780380790524

Publisher: Eos, 1999

Synopsis

Essef - Within an installation of ultra-high-energy scientific equipment, something goes wrong with a young physicist's ambitious experiment. Fortunately, it will soon be seen as a significant historical breakthrough, for the explosion has left something behind - a sphere made of nothing known to science.

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Review:

Alicia Butterworth is a physicist from U.C. Irvine who's trying to recreate the conditions that existed just before the big bang using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider on Long Island. Something goes wrong during one of the collider runs and part of the machine explodes, leaving behind a strange metallic sphere. Butterworth sneaks the object back to Irvine, where she and a colleague determine that what they have on their hands is a window into a miniature universe, or cosm. The cosm is evolving far faster than our own universe, giving Butterworth a ringside seat as the history of creation replays itself. Her theft turns out to be just the start of what, at times, is a boisterous adventure as she becomes ensnared in the intrigue of cloistered academic and scientific circles.

Book Description:

A pulse-pounding thriller set at the cutting edge of science

About this edition

• Publisher: Eos
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0380790521
• ISBN 13: 9780380790524
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 374