If the big bang eventually becomes a new religion, then it is books like this, written by its founding fathers about the genesis of the idea, that will show that it started out as a science. In 1948, as the Cold War chilled Washington DC, in nearby Johns Hopkins University, three Russian-Americans were struggling with the heat of the hot big bang. Ralph Alpher, George Gamow and Robert Herman were coaxing the first computers to simulate how nature could have conjured up the elements of Mendelev's table in the first three minutes after the big bang.

Ralph Alpher, George Gamow and Robert Herman's book is a valuable record of the early days of the big bang theory, when it was a science-based idea.

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Witnesses to the birth of the big bang

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