Big Bang (book)

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Big Bang: The Origin of the Cosmos and the Invention of Modern Science is a book by the British author Simon Singh . The English original edition was published in 2004, the German translation was published by Carl Hanser Verlag in 2005.

Big Bang covers the evolution of the Big Bang Theory of the Universe, from the philosophers of ancient Greece who first determined the distance between the earth and the sun, to the discovery of cosmic background radiation in the 20th century.

In parallel to the Big Bang theory, Singh tells the story of the people who contributed to its development through hypotheses and experiments, including Nikolaus Kopernikus , Galileo Galilei , Albert Einstein , Georges Lemaître , Alexander Friedmann , Edwin Hubble , George Gamow , Ralph Alpher , Fred Hoyle , Martin Ryle , Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson .

Another topic of the book is the scientific methodology itself: how serendipity , curiosity, theory, and observation work together to expand our understanding of the world.

The new edition, published in May 2007, was one of the top selling places in the area of ​​popular specialist literature.

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