Suppose the birth of the universe was not a definite start, but a cosmological rebound far within a black hole? This radical idea has been picking up steam as new theoretical research, spearheaded by ...

but then The Tree of Life also finds time to be about the birth of the universe. There are dinosaurs, even. Structurally, it has one of the boys from the 1950s, Jack, looking back on his life as an ...