Big Bang
"This book tells the story of the many brilliant, often eccentric scientists who fought against the establishment idea of an eternal and unchanging cosmos. From such early Greek cosmologists as Anaximander to recent satellite measurements taken deep in space, Big Bang is a narrative full of anecdotes and personal histories. Simon Singh tells the centuries-long story of mankind's attempt to understand how the universe came to be, a story which itself begins some 14 billion years ago (give or take a billion years)."--BOOK JACKET.
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- If you want to get excited by this kind of thing, I can really recommend Big Bang by Simon Singh. It's a great intro and made me go from "meh" to "wow" about cosmological things.
- "Big Bang" by Simon Singh
- Basically anything by Simon Singh, I mostly enjoyed the Code Book and the Big Bang, Fermat's Last Theorem was also solid.
Detailed yet extremely readable for a very wide audience.
- Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe, by Simon Singh
- I can recommend Simon Singh's book on this topic, his writing is rather captivating (The Big Bang is one of the best books I've read, so is the Code Book). He also made a BBC documentary on the topic.
- Two books by Simon Singh:
The Code Book
Big Bang
He has an amazing ability to go really deep into what he's explaining. No hand waving over the details. And yet, it's so very readable.
Unfortunately that wasn't true with his other book - Fermat's Theorem - probably because the subject matter was too complex?
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