How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space - Janna Levin Audiobook

Written by Janna Levin
Read by Christine Williams
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

Written by: Janna Levin
Narrated by: Christine Williams
Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
Audiobook
Release Date:10-28-09
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary

The gifted young cosmologist Janna Levin sets out to determine the size of the universe, along the way providing an intimate look at the day-to-day life of a globe-trotting physicist. Nimbly synthesizing geometry, topology, and chaos and string theories, Levin shows how the pattern of hot and cold spots left over from the Big Bang may one day reveal the size and shape of the cosmos. She does so with such originality, lucidity, and even poetry, that How the Universe Got Its Spots becomes a thrilling and deeply personal communication between a scientist and the lay listener.
©2002 Janna Levin; (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

What the Critics Say

“Lovely and utterly original….makes a reader long to meet the author.” (American Scientist)
“[A] gift to those people who want to think big but came to a screeching halt about two dozen pages into…A Brief History of Time.” (Discover)