Prof. Laura Mersini-Houghton is an internationally renowned
Cosmologist and Theoretical Physicist leading cutting-edge research
in the physics of the universe at extreme energies and the nature
of space time, based at the University of North Carolina (UNC). She
was born in Albania when it was still under a communist
dictatorship. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in
the United States and is now a regular visiting professor at
several universities around the world, including the University of
Cambridge.
Prof. Mersini-Houghton has delivered over 200 speaking engagements
for both the public and scientific communities on four continents.
Her theory of the origins of the universe has attracted
international media attention and has been tested by recent
observational discoveries, with recognized success.
A fascinating account
*SIR ROGER PENROSE, Nobel laureate*
What if our universe, vast though it may be, is but an
infinitesimal fragment of reality? What would this 'multiverse' be
like? And how could we possibly test the idea? There is no better
guide to the bizarre, and sometimes paradoxical, cosmic super-realm
than Laura Mersini-Houghton
*PAUL DAVIES, author of What’s Eating the Universe?*
From one of the world's most renowned cosmologists, Before the Big
Bang offers insights into the Big Bang and, beyond it, into the
majestic world of a quantum multiverse
*STEPHON ALEXANDER, author of Fear of a Black Universe*
A fascinating and unusual hybrid of pop science and memoir... The
author's explanation of such exotic ideas is vivid and
good-humoured, and much enlivened by tableaux from her education in
Albania
*Daily Telegraph, 5**
The age-old cosmological question of how and why the Big Bang
happened has never been tackled with such aplomb
*Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year**
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