> > And now, I'd like to solicit some recommendations from everyone else. I've been wanting to read up on cosmology lately. Is there a good book (accessible to lay folk) that explains things like the relative merits of Big Bang theory versus the steady-state model of the universe, and is fairly up to date?

> For some reason I read "cosmetology" where you wrote "cosmology". I then proceeded to read "lay folk" as "lady folk". For half a second I pondered why you would be interested, but nothing came up. So, I just re-read it and all my confusion went away :)

LOL. That sounds interesting: a book about the relative merits of women who look like they applied all their makeup in one big bang versus women who never change their makeup. :)

Nyperold