Big Bang
by Simon Singh
How we learned the universe had a beginning: Hubble, Lemaître, Gamow, the microwave background. Singh's clearest history of a theory's triumph.
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you want the Big Bang's discovery as narrative.
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Skip it if…
you want current cosmology.
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Three things you will actually use
- Theories win on evidence.
- Dissent is useful until it is not.
- Beginnings are knowable.
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Read the chapters on the steady state debate.
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