Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst (Author)

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Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst (Author)ISBN: 9781841151175 Publisher : Fourth Estate, 16 April 2001 Hardcover, 320 pages The full story of mans attempt to discover the moment that time began, from James Usshers confident assertion in 1650 that the world was 5,654 years old to the Hubble Space telescopes images of a world 13 billion years old, with a starry cast of eccentrics, mystics, scientists and visonaries. The moment of the beginning of time is one of sciences Holy Grails, pursued by

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