Genesis (Hardback)
The Story of How Everything Began
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A visionary scientific account of the seven 'days' of creation, from a lead player in the hunt for the Higgs boson
What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void? How could we know? And what must its first moments have been like?
To answer these questions, scientists are delving into all the hidden crevices of creation. Armed with giant telescopes and powerful particle accelerators, they probe the subtle mechanisms by which our familiar world came to be, and try to foretell the manner in which it will end.
The result of all this collective effort is a complex tale, stranger at times than even our most ancient creation myths. Yet its building blocks give us the power to work marvels our predecessors could scarcely comprehend. In Genesis, the CERN physicist and bestselling author Guido Tonelli does poetic justice to that great story, the accomplishment of countless minds working together across the ages.
Genesis (Ebook)
The Story of How Everything Began
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A visionary scientific account of the seven 'days' of creation, from a lead player in the hunt for the Higgs boson
What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void? How could we know? And what must its first moments have been like?
To answer these questions, scientists are delving into all the hidden crevices of creation. Armed with giant telescopes and powerful particle accelerators, they probe the subtle mechanisms by which our familiar world came to be, and try to foretell the manner in which it will end.
The result of all this collective effort is a complex tale, stranger at times than even our most ancient creation myths. Yet its building blocks give us the power to work marvels our predecessors could scarcely comprehend. In Genesis, the CERN physicist and bestselling author Guido Tonelli does poetic justice to that great story, the accomplishment of countless minds working together across the ages.
Genesis (Audiobook)
The Story of How Everything Began
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A visionary scientific account of the seven 'days' of creation, from a lead player in the hunt for the Higgs boson
What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void? How could we know? And what must its first moments have been like?
To answer these questions, scientists are delving into all the hidden crevices of creation. Armed with giant telescopes and powerful particle accelerators, they probe the subtle mechanisms by which our familiar world came to be, and try to foretell the manner in which it will end.
The result of all this collective effort is a complex tale, stranger at times than even our most ancient creation myths. Yet its building blocks give us the power to work marvels our predecessors could scarcely comprehend. In Genesis, the CERN physicist and bestselling author Guido Tonelli does poetic justice to that great story, the accomplishment of countless minds working together across the ages.
Reviews for Genesis
Stephen Bleach Sunday Times
Hannah Beckerman Observer
Booklist starred review
Publishers Weekly starred review
Kirkus starred review
Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, author The Creativity Code
Jim Baggott, author The Quantum Story
Ian Shipsey, head of particle physics at the University of Oxford
Corriere della Sera
La Repubblica
Andrea Taroni Nature
Guido Tonelli
Guido Tonelli is an Italian particle physicist, and one of the leaders in the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN. He is a professor of General Physics at the University of Pisa. Genesis, which he started writing in order to share the wonder of our cosmic origin story with his non-scientist friends, was a bestseller on release in Italy.