Volume 38, Number 9 · May 16, 1991

'The Final Secret of the Universe'?

By Daniel J. Kevles
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
by Dennis Overbye

HarperCollins, 438 pp., $25.00

The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe
by Eric J. Lerner

Times Books, 480 pp., $21.95

Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists
by Alan Lightman, by Roberta Brawer

Harvard University Press, 561 pp., $29.95

In his preface to Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, Dennis Overbye writes:



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