Donald Goldsmith Books

Every story has a beginning, and ours begins not with an explosion in space but with the expansion of space itself. The universe once existed in a state of unimaginable density and temperature. In that primal moment—what we call the Big Bang—space, time, energy, and the fundamental forces burst into...

From Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

As the cosmic fireball cooled and expanded, a transformation occurred: energy solidified into matter. Hydrogen and helium emerged as the universe’s first elements, their dominance defining the chemistry of the cosmos. They became the raw ingredients for every future act of creation. The early unive...

From Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution