Before the Big Bang
Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of Our Universe
by Brian Clegg
-Reviewed by Jodie Liu
From hypothetical dark energy to spacetime-contorting black holes, the universe confounds astrophysicists trying to divine its origins. However widely accepted Big Bang theory may be – that the universe sprung into being 14 billion years ago – Brian Clegg shows in his Before the Big Bang that it is by no means the only credible explanation for the universe’s birth. Sifting through folkloric myths and science-fiction fantasies, Clegg explores the numerous creation theories that physicists and …
