Isn't it interesting that Adam Riess happened to be working with Alex Filippenko at this time at Berkeley? Adam must seriously be considered, by the wise men of Physics, to take a trip to Stockholm in the not so distant future.
Thirteen thousand million years after the moment of appearance of this Universe of ours, give or take a few months, while he finished at Harvard and moved to Berkeley, and voilà, there he is, looking at the most distant Supernova Ia ever observed. Lucky guy!
Lucky us! Now we know that the cosmological constant is not as little as it once seemed. Now Bousso, and Filippenko, of Berkeley; put us right there, just to see and understand what we see.
This novel is more preposterous than anything García Márquez ever wrote.
They say that Roberto Bolaño wrote the first novel of the XXIst century: 2666. I really didn't see anything so outrageous as this in that book. I guess authors of this century still have a chance to write that coming masterpiece.
"Online book review site The Complete Review gave it an "A+", normally reserved for a small handful of books, saying:
- "Forty years after García Márquez shifted the foundations with One Hundred Years of Solitude, Bolaño has moved them again. 2666 is, simply put, epochal. No question, the first great book of the twenty-first century."[10] "
- Taken from the Wikipedia article on 2666.
Maybe I'll give it a try here:
"It was only until the end of the XXth century that we saw where we came from and where we were going to..."
Going back to Bolaño. The guy was cryptic, maybe he did write about Supernovae Ia, and it just escaped this dense reader. I'll leave it to you to judge:
From the Wikipedia note on 2666:
"The title of 2666 is typical of the book's mysterious qualities. This was the title of the manuscript rescued from Bolaño's desk after his passing, the book having been the primary effort of the last five years of his life. There is no reference in the novel to this number, although it makes appearances in more than one of the author's other works. Henry Hitchings has noted that "The novel's cryptic title is one of its many grim jokes; there is no reference to this figure in its 900 pages. However, in another of his novels, Amulet, a road in Mexico City is identified as looking like 'a cemetery in the year 2666'. Why this particular date? Perhaps it's because the biblical exodus from Egypt, a vital moment of spiritual redemption, was supposed to have taken place 2,666 years after the Creation."[2]"
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