Before the Big Bang

Since Einstein, the ‘Big Bang’ has been the last boundary, beyond which no physicist can ever venture. Even for the Theory of Relativity, this point in time is a ‘singularity’ that cannot be calculated and where the laws of physics are no longer defined. This is where our universe begins. But what came before it?
The young physicist Martin Bojowald caused a sensation in his field, devising a series of equations enabling him to come closer to the Big Bang than ever before – and even go beyond it. Suddenly, it is possible to see what was there before the Big Bang – with astounding findings about an excitingly unknown world with negative time, ‘inside-out spatial relations’ and a cosmos that contracts only to expand after the Big Bang. Old cosmological models of the cycle of growth and decay are suddenly incredibly up to date. But what was it really like? What came ‘before the Big Bang’?
In his book Back Before the Big Bang, Martin Bojowald provides a clear explanation of the physical background to his theory, without a single mathematical formula. He takes his readers on a fascinating journey through modern cosmology, back to the origin of the universe – and to the time before it.