Tony Rothman Offers A Primer On The Science Of The Big Bang And The Questions We Still Can't Answer About The Origins Of The Universe. Enlisting Thoughtful Analogies And A Step-by-step Approach, Rothman Guides Readers Through Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Quantum Gravity, And Other Topics At-and Beyond-the Cutting Edge Of Cosmology-- Gravity, Pumpkins, And Cosmology -- A Special Theory -- General Relativity, The Basis Of Cosmology -- The Expanding Universe -- Cosmology's Rosetta Stone: The Cosmic Background Radiation -- The Primeval Cauldron -- Dark Universe -- Darker Universe -- Galaxies Exist And So Do We -- The Universal Pipe Organ -- The First Blink: Cosmic Inflation -- To Inflate Or Not To Inflate -- Crunches And Bounces -- Why Quantum Gravity? -- Multiverses And Metaphysics. Tony Rothman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.