Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface: Before Our First Memory vii
4. 1. The Beginning: Cosmology from Thales to Hawking 1
5. 2. The Multiverse and the Ultimate Free Lunch 31
6. 3. Hawking's U-Turn and a Universe from Nothing 71
7. 4. String Theories and Colliding Branes 99
8. 5. The Big Bounce 127
9. 6. Deja Vu and the Cyclic Cosmos 153
10. 7. Born from a Black Hole 183
11. 8. Speeds of Light 209
12. 9. Holograms and Missing Dimensions 235
13. 10. Can the Universe Create Itself? 261
14. 11. Science of Religion, Religion of Science 281
15. 12. The End of the Beginning 307
16. Acknowledgments 329
17. Appendix: Big Bang Models Cheat Sheet 333
18. Notes 337
19. Index 357