- Introduction: Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
- 1. Gravity, Pumpkins, and Cosmology
- 2. A Special Theory
- 3. General Relativity, the Basis of Cosmology
- 4. The Expanding Universe
- 5. Cosmology’s Rosetta Stone: The Cosmic Background Radiation
- 6. The Primeval Cauldron
- 7. Dark Universe
- 8. Darker Universe
- 9. Galaxies Exist and So Do We
- 10. The Universal Pipe Organ
- 11. The First Blink: Cosmic Inflation
- 12. To Inflate or Not to Inflate
- 13. Crunches and Bounces
- 14. Why Quantum Gravity?
- 15. Multiverses and Metaphysics
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index


A Little Book about the Big Bang
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$24.95 • £19.95 • €22.50
ISBN 9780674251847
Publication Date: 03/01/2022