Big Bang

A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all time; a skeptical scientist dubbed the maverick theory the Big Bang. In this amazingly comprehensible history of the universe, Simon Singh decodes the mystery behind the Big Bang theory, lading us through the development of one ...

A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all time; a skeptical scientist dubbed the maverick theory the Big Bang. In this amazingly comprehensible history of the universe, Simon Singh decodes the mystery behind the Big Bang theory, lading us through the development of one of the most extraordinary, important, and awe-inspiring theories in science.

西蒙·辛格，劍橋大學(xué)粒子物理博士學(xué)位獲得者，前BBC節(jié)目制作人，他執(zhí)導(dǎo)的紀錄片《費馬大定理》獲得英國電影學(xué)院獎（BAFTA），同名科普讀物成為暢銷書。同樣暢銷的還有《密碼本》（The Code Book），這是BBC專題系列《保密的科學(xué)》的底本。