Before the Big Bang

Nov 18, 2024 12:55 PM

Author:Laura Mersini-Houghton

Before the Big Bang

One of the world's most celebrated cosmologists presents her breakthrough explanation of our origins in the multiverse.

'Fascinating' ROGER PENROSE, Nobel laureate

'What if our universe is but an infinitesimal fragment of reality? What would this "multiverse" be like? There is no better guide to the bizarre, and sometimes paradoxical, cosmic super-realm than Laura Mersini-Houghton' Paul Davies, author of What's Eating the Universe?

In recent years, Laura Mersini-Houghton's ground-breaking theory, spectacularly vindicated with observational evidence, has turned the multiverse from philosophical speculation to one of the most compelling and credible explanations of our universe's origins. In Before the Big Bang, she interweaves the story of how she arrived at this theory with her journey from communist Albania, where she was born and brought up, to the West, showing how her unconventional path helped her to challenge orthodoxies and become one of the most courageous thinkers on the world stage of theoretical physics.

'A riveting tour of the cosmos from the one of the brightest minds in astrophysics' Washington Post

'A fascinating and unusual hybrid of pop science and memoir' 5*, Stephen Poole, Daily Telegraph

'One of the world's most renowned cosmologists offers insights into the majestic world of the quantum multiverse' Stephon Alexander, author of Fear of a Black Universe

*A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022*

Reviews

A fascinating account

—— SIR ROGER PENROSE, Nobel laureate

What if our universe, vast though it may be, is but an infinitesimal fragment of reality? What would this 'multiverse' be like? And how could we possibly test the idea? There is no better guide to the bizarre, and sometimes paradoxical, cosmic super-realm than Laura Mersini-Houghton

—— PAUL DAVIES, author of What’s Eating the Universe?

From one of the world's most renowned cosmologists, Before the Big Bang offers insights into the Big Bang and, beyond it, into the majestic world of a quantum multiverse

—— STEPHON ALEXANDER, author of Fear of a Black Universe

A fascinating and unusual hybrid of pop science and memoir... The author's explanation of such exotic ideas is vivid and good-humoured, and much enlivened by tableaux from her education in Albania

—— Stephen Poole , Daily Telegraph, 5*

The age-old cosmological question of how and why the Big Bang happened has never been tackled with such aplomb

—— Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year*

'A thoughtful appeal for us to re-examine our ideas of community and our relationship with the wild'

—— The Observer

'An unforgettable portrait of a sense of place'

—— Jim Crumley, author of THE NATURE OF SPRING

'Intelligent in observation and precise and elegant in her writing, Catherine Munro shows how people and animals live and respond to each other, particularly in island communities like Shetland. She shows great insight into the way both the seasons and the sea's strong winds affect people in places like these'

—— Donald S Murray, author of In a Veil of Mist

'A meditative, exultant sojourn that illuminates the importance of working with nature, and of its importance in all we do and experience, and of living in the moment.'

—— Polly Pullar, author of A DROP IN THE OCEAN

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