Voyage to the heart of matter

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Spread 4 : destination universe

A pop-up Big Bang no less brings this unusual book to a close. Five different pop-ups relate the evolution of our universe from its hot dense beginnings to the present day and show the mysteries that the ATLAS experiment is trying to resolve.

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Co-author Anton Radevsky (left) working with ATLAS physicists on spread 4

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"Space, time, matter... everything originated in the Big Bang, an incommensurably huge explosion 13.7 billion years ago.  ATLAS turns back the clock to explore what happened immediately after the Big Bang, when the universe was less than a billionth of a second old."