Echo of the Big Bang

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Pages are fresh and crisp. A few illustrations. Glossary. Index. First printing, with complete row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "A tight-knit, high-powered group of scientists and engineers spent eight years building a satellite designed, in effect, to read the genome of the universe. Launched in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has finally reported in -- and it's found things nobody expected. For more than a year, the WMAP satellite hovered in the cold of deep space, a million miles from Earth, in an effort to determine whether the science of cosmology -- the study of the origin and evolution of the universe -- has been on the right track for the past two decades. What WMAP was looking for was a barely perceptible pattern of hot and cold spots in the faint whisper of microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang... The pattern encoded in those microwaves holds the answers... What is the universe made of? What is its geometry?... How fast is it expanding?" . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's black cloth/Jacket not priced or clipped. 8vo. viii, 215pp. .