An award-winning science writer takes us into the lab to answer some
of life's biggest questions: How was the universe created? And could we
create our own?
What if you could become God, with the ability to build a whole new
universe? As startling as it sounds, modern physics suggests that within
the next two decades, scientists may be able to perform this seemingly
divine feat-to concoct an entirely new baby universe, complete with its
own physical laws, star systems, galaxies, and even intelligent life. A
Big Bang in a Little Room takes the reader on a journey through the
history of cosmology and unravels-particle by particle, theory by
theory, and experiment by experiment-the ideas behind this provocative
claim made by some of the most respected physicists alive today. Beyond
simply explaining the science, A Big Bang in a Little Room also tells
the story of the people who have been laboring for more than thirty
years to make this seemingly impossible dream a reality. What has driven
them to continue on what would seem, at first glance, to be a quixotic
quest?
This mind-boggling book reveals that we can nurse other worlds in the
tiny confines of a lab, raising a daunting prospect: Was our universe,
too, brought into existence by a daring creator?
