Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate

A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe.

Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But as Paul Halpern shows in Flashes of Creation, just decades ago its mere mention caused sparks to fly. At the center of the debate were Russian American physicist George Gamow and British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. Gamow insisted th...