The author equips the general reader with enough knowledge of physics to understand what happened after the "big bang". He then gives a slow-motion, cinematic presentation of the universe's first three minutes. During this time, out of a dense "soup" of matter and energy, the universe was moulded and exploded apart in an enormous convulsion, the traces of which can be discerned today. Steven Weinberg is one of those scientists who has created a synthesis between the physics of elementary particles and the history of the early universe.
- ISBN10 0006540244
- ISBN13 9780006540243
- Publish Date 11 October 1993 (first published 8 September 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Flamingo
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk