An interview with Marcus Chown on books about cosmology. Splitting time from space, toppling Einstein's spacetime: Buzz about a quantum gravity theory that sends space and time back to their Newtonian roots. A review of Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics by Fulvio Melia. Stephen Hawking, the master of time, space, and black holes, steps back into the spotlight to secure his scientific legacy, and to explain the greatest mystery in physics: the origin of the universe (and more). Black hole caught zapping galaxy into existence? New observations of galactic clusters have revealed a controversial phenomenon called “dark flow” which could be a sign of parallel universes (and more). Exploring the multiverse: Do quantum computers offer proof of parallel universes, and where does

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