How the Universe Got Its Spots : : Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space / / Janna Levin.
Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity? In startling and beautiful prose, Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated ac...
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