Recommendations from our site
“Steve Weinberg is arguably the most brilliant physicist of the last many decades. He’s an absolute luminary. He also happens to be a really good writer and communicator. I’ve liked all of the books of his I’ve read, but I picked The First Three Minutes because it is the classic book about the Big Bang and the first three minutes of our universe’s history.” Read more...
The Best Books on the Big Bang
Dan Hooper, Physicist
“It’s just a really great description of the beginning of the universe, and almost every book on cosmology will include some variants of Weinberg’s description because he walks through it in such a clear way. It’s a relatively slim volume, in which he describes what happened in the first three minutes of the Big Bang, as it was known and understood back then (1977). We’ve learned a fair amount since then and some of the details in his original version are a little off, but the basic picture is still incredibly accurate.” Read more...
David Goldberg, Physicist
“Not only is it the beginning of the universe, it’s the beginning of books about the universe.” Read more...
The best books on Science Writing
Tim Radford, Science Writer
Our most recommended books
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On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin -
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean -
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by Andrew H Knoll -
The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene -
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
by Dennis Overbye -
A Man on the Moon
by Andrew Chaikin
