In parallel to the evolution of the Big Bang theory, the book tells the personal stories of the people who played a part in advancing it, both by hypothesis and by experiment. As Singh points out, the old generation must die before a new theory can be accepted. Only the finally mathematically correct interpretation of Johannes Kepler made the theories accepted, within a single generation. Both these statements were alien to the public at the time, and are still alien to a modern public. Copernicus and Galileo used false arguments to persuade people that the Earth went in circles around the Sun, and that the Sun was the center of the universe. The book takes up how the inaccuracies of the theories of Copernicus and Galileo lead them to be dismissed. The book discusses how different theories of the universe evolved, along with a personal look at the people involved. Big Bang: The most important scientific discovery of all time and why you need to know about it is a book written by Simon Singh and published in 2004 by Fourth Estate.īig Bang chronicles the history and development of the Big Bang model of the universe, from the ancient Greek scientists who first measured the distance to the sun to the 20th century detection of the cosmic radiation still echoing the dawn of time.
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