Before the Big Bang #FPABriefings

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Between fires, floods, hurricanes and famines, it might look like the end of the world. But Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton has done the math - and can tell us when and perhaps how the Universe will end and how it began. As a student in the dying days of Enver Hoxha, she was no stranger to the concept of thought crime, but found that the Western scientific establishment could also be unforgiving for iconoclasts (while harboring sexual harassers).

Despite all, her engaging personal Odyssey covers from the chaos of Big Bang to the last whimper via Communist Tirana and the Large Hadron Collider and is a readable and comprehensible guide to the Cosmos.

Laura Mersini-Houghton is a cosmologist and theoretical physicist, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Before the Big Bang. T

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