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...Overbye has discovered a fiendishly clever way of tricking readers into understanding cosmology, the study of the entire universe. Instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts -- exotic particles, black-body radiation and the like -- Overbye draws intimate portraits of such people as Allan Sandage, once a "lean, Jimmy Stewartish" youngster and now the grand old man of cosmology; David Schramm, a Porsche-driving physicist and ex-wrestler; and Yakov Zeldovich, a sort of "Zorba the Cosmologist," who dazzled colleagues with his intuitive genius and women with his charm. By describing the quirky personalities and brilliant minds of these...
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