Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

In Genesis, Guido Tonelli, the acclaimed Italian physicist and a central figure in the discovery of the Higgs boson, reveals the origins of the universe and the evolution of life on Earth from the perspective of fundamental physics. This work is one of the in-depth, clear and convincing attempts of an answer to one eternal question: What exactly happened during those first moments? Fitting 13.8 billion years into the seven days of biblical creation, Tonelli takes us on a brisk, lively tour through the evolution of our cosmos, from the Big Bang and genesis of the universe, to the emergence of life on Earth, the birth of human language with man’s power to see, understand and describe the world.

Guido Tonelli. Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began / Translated from Italian by Dmitry Bayuk; Scientific Editor Mikhail Shevchenko; Editor Irina Gachechiladze. - M.: CORPUS, 2022.