<p>The Big Bang was not a bang&mdash;and it was not so big&mdash;neither was it the start of the universe.</p><p>The universe started many trillions of years before the big bang and it was in no hurry to prepare for the event that formed our part of the universe.</p><p>This book describes the events leading up to the big bang including the formation of the building blocks of matter, how the properties of matter like mass and energy were formed.</p><p>These unobservable events of the original universe are described with graphic detail. There is an inescapable logic to each stage and phase preparing for the next. This book is a simple-to-understand and fun explanation of profound and momentous events.</p>