Big Bang

Once it was the ultimate mystery. Now the evidence points to the birth of our Universe in circumstances of unimaginable power and fury. We call it the Big Bang: an event that not only created our Universe, but the very fabric of space and time.In this book, best-selling writers take you on a vivid journey of discovery through the mystery of the creation on the Universe. They follow the Universe from its infancy and turbulent youth to the present---and on into its old age, trillions and trillions of years in the future. Along the way, they investigate the weird particles that populated the early Universe, how the Universe managed to avoid self-destruction, the echoes of the Big Bang, and how we know there was a Big Bang, The result is an authoritative, fascinating, and stunningly clear view of how the universe began.