The Big Bang was not a bang - and it was not so big -neither was it the start of the universe.The universe started many trillions of years before thebig bang and it was in no hurry to prepare for the eventthat formed our part of the universe.This book describes the events leading up to the bigbang including the formation of the building blocks ofmatter, how the properties of matter like mass andenergy were formed.These unobservable events of the original universe aredescribed with graphic detail. There is an inescapablelogic to each stage and phase preparing for the next.This book is a simple-to-understand and funexplanation of profound and momentous events.