Monday, June 23, 2025

A long long time ago

 Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper have a new book out, Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins. If you're in London this week you can hear them talk about it in person.

The book covers a huge range of speculative ideas about the Big Bang, including a lot of stories based on Afshordi's experiences as a researcher in the field. This is a subject I've never paid that close attention to, so I learned quite a bit from the book. It's not a superficial overview, but fairly dense with information.

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