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Title: Wrinkles in Time by George Smoot, Keay Davidson ISBN: 0-688-12330-9 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: January, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (13 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Clear Explanation of Spacetime
Comment: I enjoyed this book for not only the adventure of discovery involved with the COBE project, but also the clear explanation of the history of cosmology and the concept of the expanding universe and spacetime. Before I read this book my idea of the "Big Bang" was matter flying out in all directions from a giant explosion. The concept of spacetime means that space was being "created" with time. A difficult concept to grasp that is not well treated in most high school text books. I found Dr. Smoot's story most interesting and I gained an appreciation of the subtle and difficult nature of modern scientific research.

Rating: 4
Summary: Essencial cosmology book - for cosmology lovers.
Comment: I cherish books about cosmology, especially chronicling the most important discoveries about the Universe.
We have had currently three major important milestone developments, changing our perception of the space:
--In 1981Alan Guth introduced rapid, early inflation theory. It was crucial theory explaining why it is natural for the Universe to be expanding close to the critical rate today.
--Scientists were able to obtain a background measure at all in the Universe, using COBE satellite. In 1992 George Smoot announced existence of primordial seeds of modern-day structures such as galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and so on. Later these infrared readings were called "face of God".
--In 1998, acceleration of visible space expansion was officially acknowledged as a breakthrough of the years. The observations confirmed Alan Guth's inflationary theory. Robert Kirshner- supernova guru from Harvard, is one of the most important scientists studying this "cceleration" phenomena.

George Smoot's books belongs to this category of essential "collectors' items". Reader will learn first hand how COBE project has been 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 As for today, it is a bit of outdated info, but author's writings about personal life, work and experience are still worse of perusal.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.

Rating: 4
Summary: History of Discovering Cosmic History
Comment: "Einstein, who was devoted to a rational explanation of the world, once said: 'I want to know how god created the world. I want to know his thoughts.' He meant it metaphorically, as a measure profundity of his quest." - George Smoot

Wrinkles in time, written by George Smoot and Keay Davidson, is an excellent book if you are interested in cosmology like me, or if you are looking for something to read about how the 'big bang hypothesis' was proved into theory, especially if you are in favor of it.

The first part of the book had beneficial knowledge about particle physics. It included different types of dark matter such as baryonic, non-baryonic, cold, hot, etc. It explains the physical, chemical, and nuclear phase transitions of matter, which goes from solid to liquid to gas to plasma and then protons. In this part the author also explains theories such as the big bang theory, predictions, discoveries, and mysteries of the cosmos.

To me the first part was also more exciting than the second part where George Smoot is on a 'journey of exploring the Cosmic Background History'. This is the part where the author pursues the 'holy grail of science' and at last is allowed to send up his satellite whose data is unbelievable so he goes on an expedition to Antarctica to collect data from the South Pole by his own hands. At last George finds his reason for himself rejecting the data. The book ends with him going to the press to reveal his data and final conclusions.