Laura Mersini-Houghton

Author

Laura Mersini-Houghton is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist who is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is one of the leading thinkers on the origins of the universe and has made pioneering contributions to our understanding of what may have existed before the Big Bang. Before the... Big Bang is her account of her scientific journey and her groundbreaking theory that our universe is one of many in a vast multiverse, and that evidence of other universes may be detectable in the cosmic microwave background radiation. The book combines cutting-edge physics with the remarkable personal story of a woman who grew up in communist Albania and became one of the world's most original cosmological thinkers. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Before the Big Bang offers mind-expanding listening and reading for science enthusiasts and anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what came before everything we can see. Read more Show less