What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Scientists created a universe in a sphere in a lab. It would expand to a point and then start to collapse. Time was vastly swifter in the sphere universe. One lady scientist wasn't happy with that as she was studying the inhabitants. So, she figured out how to be an 'oracle' through a successive line of females. They knew their universe was collapsing. Their telescopes told them that. The end of the book has a tiny ship escaping the collapsing universe in the last moment bursting into ours.

Hi, James.

As I understand it, you have to put more of your book's description that just the genre.

Probably should put the ending of the book in a spoiler tag, or at least in a separate paragraph from the main description.

Also, when did you read this book? It might be helpful.

James, please note you must add plot details to the header/ topic title "Sci-fi". Just copy from what you've already written in the first comment. Requests with vague headers are closed because this group is so large. If you would like help with this, let us know in a new comment.

Is this book for adults? Around what year did you read it?

I added some details to the header/ topic title. Feel free to edit it.

Cosm by Greg Benford

Cosm

Kirkus Review of Cosm by Gregory Benford - Andy's suggestion:

"... In 2005, a University of California (Irvine) physics professor, the black and rather matronly Alicia Butterworth, visits Long Island's Brookhaven labs for a particle-collision experiment. But following a mysterious explosion Alicia finds an inexplicable shiny basketball- sized sphere in the wreckage. Fearful of bureaucratic interference from Brookhaven, she whisks the sphere—it's easily contained by a magnetic field—back to UCI, where she and assistant Zak, grad student Brad, and Caltech theoretician Max Jalon study what proves to be a wormhole, held open by negative-energy density, leading into a new universe—the Cosm—that Alicia has accidentally created! Later, the Cosm produces an unexpected burst of energy, and poor Brad gets fried. In the Cosm, time runs millions of times faster than in our own universe, and the scientists watch fascinated while stars and galaxies evolve. As Brookhaven creates its own much larger Cosm, media clamor and threats from religious fanatics reach a crescendo. Finally, as the government prepares to grab Alicia's Cosm, the wormhole's other end intersects a black hole, and the Cosm explodes..."

James,

Was it Cosm?

James wrote: "Scientists created a universe in a sphere in a lab. It would expand to a point and then start to collapse. Time was vastly swifter in the sphere universe. One lady scientist wasn't happy with that ..."
I know this book. I have this book. I will see if I can find it in my book cases.

Edge of Time


Got it.
It's Edge of Time by David Grinnell. Copyright 1958.
blurb-
A group of scientists have succeeded in creating a universe in miniature... they have created a primal superatom which explodes into the cosmic fragments of which stars and galaxies are eventually made...
In this pocket galaxy, the evolution of stars and planets takes place with - to the observers - lightning speed. They watch the evolution of our own universe recreated, the coming of life on various scattered planets, the evolution of intelligent races, and the rise of civilisations. By watching as these imprisoned cultures reach and pass our own level, they hope to watch a counterpart of our own far future and to reap the science of many races, through many thousands of years.

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As I recall, the scientists are able to sink their consciousness into those planets and interract with the inhabitants. A woman scientist wants to save her favourite world and becomes a seer and prophet, eventually leading them to break out of the miniature universe into our own to find a new life before the artificial universe collapse.