The First Three Minutes

Now featuring a major new epilogue that brings the story up to date, this classic work by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist is "science writing at its best" (New York Review of Books). Translated in 18 languages.

* Introduction: The Giant and the Cow * The Expansion of the Universe * The Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background * Recipe for a Hot Universe * The First Three Minutes * A Historical Diversion * The First One-Hundredth Second * Epilogue: The Project Ahead * Tables * Properties of Some Elementary Particles * Properties of Some Kinds of Radiation * Glossary * Mathematical Supplement * Afterword: Cosmology Since 1977