About the Book: New Scientist : The Origin Of Almost Everything
When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to
find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away
from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned,
then they must, at some point, have been on top of one another. This discovery
transformed the debate about one of the most fundamental questions of human
existence - how did the universe begin? Every society has stories about the
origin of the cosmos and its inhabitants, but now, with the power to