Cosmic Origins: Science's Long Quest to Understand How Our Universe Began - Hardcoverby M. Mitchell Waldrop (Author) Introduction. The Expanding Universe. The Discovery of the Big Bang. Behind the Veil. The Dark Universe. The Age of Precision Cosmology. Back Jacket Cosmic Origins tells the story of how physicists and astronomers have struggled for more than a century to understand the beginnings of our universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the modern day. The book will introduce the science as a narrative, by telling the story