The Big Bang Theory: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Works

by Karen C. Fox

Book Overview

A lively, accessible look at the Big Bang theory This compelling book describes how the Big Bang theory arose, how it has evolved, and why it is the best theory so far to explain the current state of the universe. In addition to understanding the birth of the cosmos, readers will learn how the theory stands up to challenges and what it fails to explain. Karen Fox provides clear answers to some of the hardest questions including: Why was the Big Bang...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471394521
• ISBN13: 9780471394525
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Cosmology for Dummies

Karen Fox has made unexplainable explainable. She has taken a very tough subject and made it accessible to the lay reader. I highly recommend this book. I also had the good fortune to see her discuss her book at a local independent book store. She was great. If her book tour comes to your city, don't miss it.

Why You'll Want to Read This Book

Karen Fox has the freshest of writing styles and a complete grasp of her subject. Her voice is, at once, playful and intimate. Readers will follow her anywhere. With a winning, light touch, she presents just the right details to give such characters as Plato, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton memorable personalities, and places their accomplishments in the context of a greater story. Inspiring work. An irresistible read.

Explaining the Unexplainable, Deftly

Who among us has not wished to know more about the creation of our universe and the fantastic nature of how we all got here? Who also has not felt his eyes quickly glaze over and wanted to scream "no mas" when we actually enlisted the help of a scientific type to try to explain such a complicated topic? Well, Karen Fox has devised the magic bullet to slay such dilemmas with this book! Ms. Fox explains science's most well-known theory with a clarity and deftness that causes the complexities of the matter to be transparent to us curious laymen. With a thorough yet thoroughly readable style that is ceaselessly engaging, Ms. Fox rewards our curiousity by serving up a delectably fun and informative serving of information that goes down easy and causes no heartburn. Whether or not you were able to get past Intro Physics, if you want to know all you should want to know about astronomy's biggest mystery and enjoy doing it, this is the book for you.

Scientific Complexity Made Comprehensible

Karen Fox has a unique ability to explain difficult scientific concepts to lay people, and has done so brilliantly in her new book explaining current theories of the origin of the universe. She is to be highly commended for putting these theories in perspective, telling us what appears to be supported by compelling evidence, yet letting us know how much uncertainty still exists. We can only hope that Ms. Fox will continue to expand our scientific horizons in language that one does not have to be a PHD to understand.

The Big Bang Theory

This book is so much fun. It takes a playful approach to help explain one of the most interesting theories of modern science, being the Big Bang. Did you ever wonder how the theory came about? Well, you'll read about the roots of the theory, and why its now considered the best theory to explain current state of universe. I never knew about some of the competing ideas. Don't miss this book. I look forward to other books in the Series.