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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.
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