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9780312385477

Before the Big Bang : The Prehistory of Our Universe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312385477

  • ISBN10:

    0312385471

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-08-04
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Summary

According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don't know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In Before the Big Bang , Brian Clegg (the critically acclaimed author of Upgrade Me and The God Effect ) explores the history of this remarkable concept. From the earliest creation myths, through Hershel's realization that the Milky Way was one of many galaxies, to on-going debates about Black Holes, this is an incredible look at the origins of the universe and the many theories that led to the acceptance of the Big Bang. But in classic scientist fashion Clegg challenges the notion of the Big Bang itself, and raises the deep philosophical question of why we might want to rethink the origin of the universe. This is popular science at its best, exploratory, controversial, and utterly engrossing.

Author Biography

BRIAN CLEGG is the author of A Brief History of Infinity, The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon, and Light Years: The Extraordinary Story of Mankind’s Fascination with Light, and Upgrade Me: Our Search for Human 2.0. He holds a physics degree from Cambridge and has written regular columns, features, and reviews for numerous magazines. He lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and two children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Big Bang Primerp. 1
Enter The Creatorp. 7
What and How Big?p. 20
How Old?p. 64
A Bang Or a Whimper?p. 81
Keeping Things Steadyp. 116
Inflating The Truthp. 135
Let There Be Timep. 176
Groundhog Universep. 186
Living In a Bubblep. 226
Welcome To the Matrixp. 247
Snapshot Universep. 264
Notesp. 293
Indexp. 299
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