The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
224 pages | Publisher: Basic Books (August 18, 1993) | ISBN: 0465024378 | PDF | 70.6 Mb

The novel was written by renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin, whose research and breakthroughs in relation to electromagnetism led to him being awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize in Physics. Weinberg is widely respected within the scientific and "lay" community alike, as his book allowed the common person to understand the creation of the universe and as such, his book is now translated in over 25 different languages.