Cosmology Revealed by Anthony Fairall, Springer-Verlag, £19.50, ISBN 1852333227
IMAGINE the Universe as a spherical, hollow chocolate Easter egg, with the chocolate representing the opaque, early stages of the big bang. Then think of all the cars racing along Earth’s roads. Eventually, of course, Earth’s oil resources will run out: those cars will grind to a halt. In the same way the stars will exhaust their nuclear fuel and stop shining. Or you could think of the Universe as a cosmological fruit cake with galaxies as raisins. Perhaps the voids between galaxies could be created by “anti-gravity” acting as a…
