Keeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy Bascom begins his text by meticulously laying the necessary groundwork to understand the Big Bangs mathematics without using any equations. He then paints a freezeframe picture of our universe as if we had taken a threedimensional picture with a giant camera. Within this picture he traces forces beginning with the smallest a single atom to the biggest the cosmos keeping in mind that in this frozen moment ever