24th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics

Session

Public Lecture

3 Sept 2019, 19:00

University of Surrey

149. The day without a yesterday

Marcus Chown

03/09/2019, 19:00

The greatest discovery in the history of science is that there was a day without a yesterday. The Universe has not existed forever. It was born. 13.82 billion years ago, it erupted into being in a titanic fireball called the big bang. Marcus Chown explains how the man who first guessed that the Universe had arisen in a hot big bang believed (incorrectly) that it was the furnace which had...