HUNDREDS of people have attended a lecture led by a scientist working with Professor Brian Cox.

Professor Jeff Forshaw took the York Literature Festival back in time – all the way to the moments leading up to the Big Bang.

Prof Forshaw, who has collaborated with Brian Cox on his new book Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos, explained how science has progressed to such a point that physicists can now study how the universe was behaving at the exact moment the Big Bang took place

An audience of over 400 at St Peter’s School heard Prof Forshaw detail how the Higgs Boson particle, discovered in the Large Hadron Collider in 2012, has enabled a whole new way of thinking about the past, present, and indeed future of our universe.

David Morris, head of science at St Peter’s, said: “This was a truly fascinating lecture, offering an insight into some genuinely astonishing science...I would like to offer him my sincere thanks for an engaging and exciting lecture”.