Beware Invisible Cows: My Search for the Source of the Universe

By Andy Martin

What exactly is the Big Bang? How do we know it happened? Is there any evidence for it? And if so, who is searching for it, and what are they like? And if they find it, what will they do with it? Will it help us? Will it answer some questions? Will it tell us the meaning of life, and of who we are and where we are going...?

In Beware Invisible Cows, Andy Martin sets out on a road trip to search for the source of the universe, and to meet the men and women scientists who are undertaking this Herculean task on our behalf.

In his personal quest for the mother of all truths, he has to go all the way back to the origins of time and space. He climbs up to the highest observatory in the world and sticks his head inside a 4 km-long laser tube supposedly capable of surfing the waves from the Big Bang. He sees himself the way he used to be in a mirror and discovers where you go when you die. He has close encounters with aliens and intimations of immortality.

This is a book that in many ways has it all - science, philosophy, literature, religion, Einstein, Weinstein, god, The Godfather, all seen through a glass darkly. Andy Martin is the author of two classic books on surfing, Stealing the Wave and Walking on Water, as well as Napoleon the Novelist and Waiting for Bardot. 

• Paperback
• 307 pages
• ISBN: 9781847374165