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  • Published: 2 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780718187859
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 56

Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book

Discover how the universe began




An accessible, authoritative and entertaining introduction to The Big Bang for adult readers

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Big Bang is an accessible, authoritative, and entertaining introduction to the greatest discovery in the history of science: that the universe has not existed forever but was born. There was a day without a yesterday.

Written by award-winning writer and former astrophysicist Marcus Chown, The Big Bang details how 13.82 billion years ago all matter, energy, space - and even time - erupted into being in a titanic fireball.

This mind-bending book addresses the big questions: What was the Big Bang? What drove the Big bang? And what happened before the big bang? The evidence for the Big Bang, it turns out, is all around us...

  • Published: 2 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780718187859
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 56

About the author

Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown is New Scientist's cosmology consultant. He is the author of Afterglow of Creation, which was runner-up for the Rhône-Poulenc Science Book Prize, and was the winner of the 1994 Glaxo Wellcome ABSW Science Writers' Award.

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Praise for Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book

The artwork is gloriously retro, echoing the original Ladybird house style but containing completely up to date information.

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