A review by juanpablo_85
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg

4.0

It's a fairly short book, only about 155 pages but there is a lot of information in it. The history of discovering what the Universe was like after the Big Bang is covered, the missteps & a clarification of how things are missed even with useful information available. It obviously goes into the conditions of the early universe. For me personally, reading a little bit about the basics of Quantum Physics & relativity helped me out tremendously with certain topics that were covered & I feel I might have been lost otherwise. Understanding the nature of quarks, particles, the 4 forces & things of that nature I think go a long way towards comprehending the material in this book & when the information "clicks" it just makes it all the more exciting. The book is fairly old but it is still relevant considering the things that have been confirmed in the years since this book was written. A definite must read if you're a fan of cosmology & trying to understand what the universe was & is like.