Reviews Physics

Facts and Speculations in Cosmology by Jayant V. Narlikar and Geoffrey Burbidge

Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008, 287 p., $60

By Science News

Physicists argue that the universe’s mysteries are far from being solved.

A version of this article appears in the November 8, 2008 issue of Science News.

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