The Beginning of Everything - The First Seconds of the Universe - Dan Hooper

Scientists have recently made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos has evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. However, there is still a critical gap in our knowledge. We know almost nothing about what happened during the first seconds of the universe. The Beginning of Everything tells the story of how we try to understand this most important and mysterious period in the early history of the cosmos.

Dan Hooper takes readers on a journey into the everyday world of cosmology, exploring the profound questions that scientists are asking about the origins and nature of the universe. Hooper tells how scientists are trying to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang to test promising theories about how and why our universe contains so much matter and so little antimatter. We may soon learn how dark matter formed in the earliest moments of our universe. New telescopes are providing a glimpse into the era of cosmic inflation, the events that shaped our universe into what it is today.

Dan Hooper is the director of Fermilab's Theoretical Astrophysics Group and a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on dark matter and cosmic rays.