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Big Bang

The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About it

Simon Singh

Fourth Estate

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‘Singh is a very gifted storyteller who never misses the chance to make his subject clearer or more entertaining’

SCARLETT THOMAS, Independent on Sunday

‘This very well-written book conveys the ideas underpinning cosmological theory with great clarity’

Nature

‘Singh uses beautifully simple analogies and clearly explained dia grams to enable even the most mathematically hobbled of us to recapitulate the history of man’s intellectual engagement with the dark spaces around him’

Sunday Telegraph

‘If you are intrigued by the story but wary of mathematics, do not worry; Simon Singh spares us most of the maths, and he juggles big ideas with tact and care’

Daily Mail

A model of clarity’

Economist

‘Singh tells his tale well, with chatty anecdotes leavening the astro physics’

Guardian

‘An epic tale brilliantly told, packed with courage and tragedy, heroes and martyrs’

Daily Telegraph

‘Even if the cosmologists don’t know where the universe is going, at least they have found out where it has come from. Anybody who wants to understand this wonderful achievement will not do better than start with Singh’s book’