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Article: THE DARK AMID THE UNIVERSE'S LIGHT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 30, 1988
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE. A Scientist Explores the
Mysteries of the Cosmos, by James Trefil. Scribner's. 197
pp. $17.95.
Creation myths have been the stuff of folklore since the Hindu
tale that the world rests on the back of a turtle.
Physicist and writer James Trefil tells his own creation
story, which has the backing of most of the world's cosmologists --
those persons who gave us such cliff-hangers as relativity, the
expanding universe and the Big Bang.
Trefil, a physics professor at George Mason University in
Fairfax, Va., has written a reasonably easy-to-read update on the
recent developments in our universe, including one he's
particularly high on -- the ...