Physics Basic Big Bang For Kids

Your child is about to discover the greatest story ever told - the birth and fate of the entire universe.

From the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang to the ultimate end of all things, this chapter-by-chapter guide walks young readers through the real science of how everything began, using clear language and vivid explanations designed for curious minds.

Inside each chapter, young readers will explore:

• Why the Big Bang was an explosion of space - not in space - and what a singularity actually is
• How the universe expanded faster than light during cosmic inflation and why that matters
• What the hot plasma soup of the early universe looked like for the first 380,000 years
• The cosmic microwave background - the oldest light in existence - and what it tells scientists today
• How the first giant stars formed, lived fast, and died in powerful supernovae that created heavy elements
• What dark matter is, why we cannot see it, and how scientists know it exists
• What dark energy is and why it is pushing galaxies apart faster every billion years
• How gravity built galaxies, stars, and planets across hundreds of millions of years
• Why the observable universe is 93 billion light-years wide - and why the full universe may be far larger
• Three possible endings for the universe: the Big Freeze, the Big Rip, and the Big Crunch