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.