
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 31, 1993                   TAG: 9307310065
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: B10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Reviewed by LARRY SHIELD
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

AUTHOR UNVEILS MORE THAN HE SHOULD

With the public's discovery of the physicist Stephen Hawking, books on cosmology (the study of the origins of the universe) have become very popular.

In this well-written volume, "Unveiling the Edge of Time," author John Gribben has written what amounts to an historical overview of the field from Newton to Einstein to Rees. The middle section bogs down a bit with an extremely detailed discussion of "wormholes," those theoretical connections between universes used most popularly by Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on the starship Enterprise.

Obviously, John Gribben likes wormholes, but the detailed descriptions of how and why they may occur belong in a book about wormholes, not in a once-over-lightly cosmology review.

\ UNVEILING THE EDGE OF TIME. By John Gribben. Harmony Books. $20. Shirt: Larry Shield trains dogs and horses in Franklin County.

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