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    God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
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    God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
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    God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe

    Written by Amir D. Aczel

    Narrated by Kent Broadhurst

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    About this audiobook

    Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"?

    In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.

    In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that the cosmos is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. The way we perceive the universe was changed forever. The most compelling theory cosmologists could find to explain this phenomenon was Einstein's cosmological constant, a theory he conceived--and rejected---over eighty years ago.

    Drawing on newly discovered letters of Einstein--many translated here for the first time--years of research, and interviews with prominent mathematicians, cosmologists, physicists, and astronomers, Aczel takes us on a fascinating journey into "the strange geometry of space-time," and into the mind of a genius. Here the unthinkable becomes real: an infinite, ever-expanding, ever-accelerating universe whose only absolute is the speed of light.

    Awesome in scope, thrilling in detail, God's Equation is storytelling at its finest.


    From the Trade Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 28, 2000
    ISBN9780375417139
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    God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
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    Amir D. Aczel

    Amir D. Aczel is the bestselling author of ten books, including Entanglement, The Riddle of the Compass, The Mystery of the Aleph, and Fermat's Last Theorem. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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