This book follows an amazing voyage from the start of everything, through the formation of the Solar System and onto the development of First Life on the initially barren Earth. A good way to start is to explain that you, the reader, are literally a star child. Absolutely every single component of every atom in your body came into existence 14,000 million years ago at the moment the Universe itself came into existence, when time itself started with the Big Bang. Then we consider the sequence of events that lead to your existence and presence here today. Are those events simply a consequence...