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Griffin Publishing Before the Big Bang by Brian Clegg
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 dont 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 Hershels realization that the Milky Way was one of many galaxies to ongoing 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 the idea of Big Bang doesnt so much answer questions as raise new ones. 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.show more