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How the Universe Got Its Spots Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

Janna Levin

Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity? In startling and beautiful prose, Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated access...

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StarTalk Radio

It was discussed as one of Janna Levin's three books.

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So one of them is how the universe got its spots.

— Episode: Cosmic Queries – Bits of Spacetime with...

Episode: Cosmic Queries – Bits of Spacetime with Janna Levi...

It was discussed as one of Janna Levin's three books.

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So one of them is how the universe got its spots.

Episode: Relativity Round-up: StarTalk Live! With Janna Lev...

It was discussed as one of Neil deGrasse Tyson's favorite books. It is about upheavals in our understanding of how the world works and how we reacted to that.

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And you're Director of Science here at Pioneer Works, Editor-in-Chief of the Pioneer Works podcast, author of How the Universe Got Its Spots.

One of my favorites, Black Hole Survival Guide.

Episode: Cosmic Queries – Black Hole Survival Guide

It was mentioned as her first book, discussing the shape of space-time and the universe's size and infinity, rather than black holes.

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And then you had a book before that, How Black Holes Got Their Spots?

How the Universe Got Its Spots.

And that's actually just about the shape of space-time and whether or not the universe is infinite.

Episode: Cosmic Queries – Edge of the Universe

It was mentioned as a work that explores the potential to determine the shape and size of the universe based on the hot and cold spots observed in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

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My first book is about whether or not the universe is infinite or finite.

How the universe got its spots is about could we tell the shape and size of the universe by looking in the hot and cold spots in the Big Bang and the light left over from the Big Bang

So how the universe got its spots is actually very similar mathematical problem because you're asking about enzymes being high or low in the developing embryo and it turns out that the shape and the size of the animal and like whether It's tubular or when those spots are hitting it that it will determine what kind of spots the animal gets

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