And there was light

摘要

Speaking at a conference last year, Andrew Lange, an American physicist, boiled the history of cosmology down to a single slide containing three bullet points: the universe is expanding; it began as a primeval fireball; and you can still see the glow. This is a beautifully concise summary of the history of everything, though many people would regard it as lacking a little in detail. For a comprehensive yet eminently comprehensible account of how cosmologists pieced together the history of the universe, turn to the latest book by Simon Singh, a British science writer best known for his bestselling account of the solution of Fermat's last theorem.