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I was younger and was interested in this topic and more up on my chemistry and physics I would have enjoyed this book more.
Dr. Smoot mentioned that he had to pared down the manuscript frompages and lost a lot of personal dynamics, . . I may have been more interested in that manuscript,

If you are physics, cosmology, or astrology enthusiast, . . you will find this book very rewarding! In April, a discovery was made that changed the way we view the world.
Dr. George Smoot, a distinguished cosmologist and adventurer whose quest for cosmic knowledge had taken him from the Brazilian rain forest to the South Pole, unveiled his momentous discovery, bringing to light the very nature of the universe.
For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, for anyone who has ever longed to pull aside the fabric of the universe for a glimpse of what lies behind it.
Wrinkles in Time is the story of Smoot's search to uncover the cosmic seeds of the universe,

Wrinkles in Time is the Double Helix of cosmology, an intimate look at the inner world of men and women who ask.
"Why are we here" It tells the story of George Smoot's dogged pursuit of the cosmic wrinkles in the frozen wastes of Antarctica, on mountaintops, in experiments borne aloft aboard highaltitude balloons, Uspy planes, and finally a space satellite.
Wrinkles in Time presents the hard science behind the structured violence of the big bang theory through breathtakingly clear, lucid images and meaningful comparisons.
Scientists and nonscientists alike can follow with rapt attention the story of how, in a fiery creation, wrinkles formed in space ultimately to become, galaxies, and even greater delicate structures.
Anyone can appreciate the implications of a universe whose end is written in its beginnings whose course developed according to a kind of cosmic DNA, which guided the universe from simplicity and symmetry to evergreater complexity and structure.
As controversial as it may seem today, Wrinkles in Time reveals truths that, in an earlier century, would have doomed its proclaimers to the fiery stake.
For four thousand years some people have accepted the Genesis account of cosmic origin for most of this century, scientists debated two rival scientific explanations known as the steady state and big bang theories.
And now, Wrinkles in Time tells what really happened,

The personal story behind astrophysicist George Smoot's incredible discovery of the origin of the cosmos, hailed by Stephen Hawking as "The scientific discovery of the century, if not of all time.
" Loved the book. Clearly the title plays on Hawkings A Brief History but the subject matter is very different, dealing with the origins of space and time and the adventure that the author and his team embarked upon attempting to discover why the universe is not just comprised of dust.
For the curious mind with a bent for science, a must read, POSTED BY ME AT AMAZON
, . . I bought it in. Since then I have cherished books about cosmology, especially chronicling the most important discoveries based on observation,
We have had currently three major important milestone developments, changing our perception of the spacetime:
InAlan Guth and Andre Linde introduced rapid, exponential, near zero time "inflation theory".
It was crucial theory explaining why it is natural for the Universe to be expanding close to the critical rate today.
Today inflationary model still prevails over other models among majority of cosmologists,
Scientists were able to obtain a background measure at all in the Universe, using COBE satellite, InGeorge Smoot announced existence of primordial seeds of modernday structures such as galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and so on, Later these infrared readings were called "face of God",
In, acceleration of visible space expansion that occurred aboutbillions year ago and still continues was officially acknowledged as a breakthrough of the years.
Robert Kirshner supernova guru from Harvard, is one of the most important scientists studying this "acceleration" phenomena, Dark Energy component has been introduced,
George Smoot's work belongs to this category of essential "collector's item", Reader will learn first hand how COBE project has been planned, completed and its results confirmed by measurements of Milky Way's radio emissions taken at the South Pole.
Book delivers substantial amount of basic information about Universe as well, As for today, it is a bit of outdated info because COBE project had been completed before we gained knowledge of acceleration and concept of dark energy.
Still author's writings about personal life, work and experience are definitely recommended and by all means worth of perusal,
Alan Guth's "Inflationary Universe" and Robert Kirshner's "Extravagant Universe" will be two other milestone books being written by directly involved scientists.
Not merely a great book, but an absolutely essential reading for any physics and wholly Science curious explorer, A certainly must buy and must read, I have a Little, Brown amp Co edition fromin hardback, Very interesting but heavy going, Not one to give up, it took me ages to complete, Spoiler Alert: COBE totally gives viable evidence of inflationary theory!

This book is an accounting of science as it ought to be done.
George Smoot was the project head of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite that in the early nineties mapped the radiation discovered by Penzias and Wilson in.
COBE's discovery of "Wrinkles" in this radiation gives a beautiful picture of what the universe must have looked like only,years after the Big Bang.


So yes, dramatic evidence of a cosmological theory is always interesting, you say, but you've read A Brief History of Time, and you don't really need to know anything more about inflationary theory.


This book is not about inflationary theory,

This book is about doing research, It is about designing a satellite to be launched by the space shuttle only to have the Challenger explode and shuttles put on indefinite hold.
It is about working obsessively to make every carefully designed instrument half of its original size in order to fit it on a Delta rocket.
This book is about traveling to Antarctica for a month in order to rule out every other possibility before publishing your extremely promising data.
Therefore, I would argue that this book isn't just about finding extremely compelling scientific information this book is about conducting reasonable, responsible, resplendent science.


I highly recommend it, I am warned that I should take this book with a pinch of salt, since Smoot may not be telling us the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
But dammit, I want to believe him, This is what science should be like: go out and look for the data, no matter what it costs you, At several points, you just can't help comparing him with Indiana Jones,

Smoot started off in the earlys as a particle physicist, where the norm was already for people to work together in big teams.
But he was ambitious, and thought he'd never get anywhere as an anonymous member of a giant collaboration, He looked around and got interested in observational cosmology, which was finally starting to take off, In particular, he was greatly influenced by Peebles's book on the subject, People had just found the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation the faint radiation coming from all over the sky that was generally assumed to come from the Big Bang but no one knew much about it.
Peebles urged researchers to find out more,

Smoot started doing cosmology, though he didn't immediately get involved with the CMBR, His first project was an attempt to detect antimatter atoms in cosmic rays, which at the time was another hot topic: some people thought there was a lot of antimatter out there just waiting to be discovered.
Maybe there were antimatter suns with antimatter planets orbiting them, This is for example the premise of Jack Williamson's SF novel sitelink Seetee Ship, Now, it's hard to remember that it was ever more than sciencefiction, but then it was taken seriously,

Smoot set out to look for antimatter in cosmic rays, flying experiments in balloons to get them high enough to have a chance of catching something.
There were all sorts of exotic accidents, One balloon crashes on a farm in the Badlands, and they have to retrieve the tapes from the wreckage, At the end, they have tens of thousands of events recorded, and they analyze them all to try and figure out if they've found any antimatter.
They can explain every event as normal, with one single exception as far as they can see, it's possible that it's antimatter.
But the odds are only three to one in their favor, so they decide to run a bunch more balloon experiments.
They never find another possible antimatter event so it's a negative result, but an interesting one which more or less refutes the idea that there are antimatter.


As you can see, Smoot is a careful guy who knows how to get things done, He then starts a new project which finally does get to looking at the CMBR he wants to use it to establish a universal frame of reference, so that he can measure the absolute velocity of the Earth.
Everyone tells him this can't be done, since it means measuring temperature differences in the CMBR of around a thousandth of a degree, and there is no way to fly the experiment.
But Smoot has heard that old Uspy planes are possibly being made available for scientific research purposes, he works his connections, he persuades people to do the incredibly tricky engineering, and he gets data which indicates that the Earth's velocity indeed, our galaxy's velocity is far greater than it should be, which has many interesting consequences for cosmology.
Unfortunately, skeptics argue that it could be a false signal, and the only way to find out is to redo the experiment in the Southern Hemisphere.
He somehow ships everything down to Peru, bribes and wheedles his way into getting approval, and collects his data, It turns out that the signal is genuine,

I haven't even got to the COBE satellite mission, the high point of the book, but you get the picture.
In a way, I don't care if Smoot is stretching the truth or exaggerating his role, I think people like him are essential when you have a new field that's just opening up another example that springs to mind is Galileo, clearly one of his heroes.
Smoot advanced the state of our understanding of the universe a great deal by being willing to do whatever it took to find answers to questions that many people thought were too difficult to investigate.
He learned tricky theoretical ideas and turned them into concrete experiments, he put together crack teams of engineers and forced them to build devices with ridiculous levels of robustness and accuracy, he sat in budget meetings and persuaded people who didn't like him to give him money, and when necessary he went in person to the Amazon jungle or the South Pole to get the observations

he needed.


And all the time, he was careful never to believe he'd found something when it was possible that all he had was wishful thinking.
He tried his damnedest to eliminate uncertainties, and at one point towards the end of the COBE project he offered a substantial reward to any member of the team who could show why the current results were not correct.
Maybe he wasn'thonest, but neither was Galileo, For my money, Smoot will go down in history as another truly firstrate experimental scientist,
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