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    Flashes of Creation

    Paul Halpern

    Hachette £22.99 • HB

    The Big Bang theory is happily taken for granted as the established model that describes how our Universe came into being. Indeed, this theory is so mainstream that there’s a popular TV series named after it. And yet there was a time in the not-so-distant past when there was much more debate about how everything started, how the elements were created and now they arrived at the abundance seen in our Universe today.

    describes the lives of two of the giants of the great cosmological debate: George Gamow (1904-68) in the corner of the Big Bang theory and Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) with the steady-state theory. Although

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