What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void? How could we know? And what must its first moments have been like? A visionary scientific account of the seven 'days' of creation, from a lead player in the hunt for the Higgs boson. A cutting-edge account of our cosmic origins, told, with a fitting sense of mythic grandeur, over seven epic 'days' of creation, Genesis was a breakout bestseller on release in Italy, selling 40,000 copies to date.