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Singh, Simon. Big Bang: the Origin of the Universe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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| December 01, 2004 | Maxwell, Gloria | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SINGH, SIMON. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe. Fourth Estate: HarperCollins. Jan. 2005. c.544p. illus. index. ISBN 0-00-716220-0. $26.95. SCI

Writing in a manner that almost any reader will understand and enjoy, best-selling author Singh (Fermat's Enigma) here presents a brief history of the origins of the universe, taking on the most important scientific theory ever postulated. He begins with a historical overview of how scientific thought changed from mythology to cosmology, then moves to the debate between the steady state model of an eternal universe and the Big Bang theory, which saw the universe as beginning at a unique moment that was followed by rapid …

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