Approximately 13.7 billion years ago, the entirety of our universe was compressed into the confines of an atomic nucleus. Known as a singularity, this is the moment before creation when space and time did not exist. According to the prevailing cosmological models that explain our universe, an ineffable explosion, trillions of degrees in temperature on any measurement scale, that was infinitely dense, created not only fundamental subatomic particles and thus matter and energy but space and tim...

Ian Rutherford Plimer (born February 12, 1946) is an Australian geologist, academic and businessman. He is a critic of creationism and of the scientific consensus that global warming is driven by anthropogenic CO₂ . He has published approximately 60 academic papers and six books, including his book on the global warming debate,
Heaven and Eart  Global Warming: The Missing Science. He is a director of three mining companies.

What Heaven And Earth sets out to do is restore a sense of scienti...