From the armoire to the cave -- Seeing in the dark -- Through a glass, lightly -- There, and back again -- A stitch in time -- The shadows of reality -- A universe stranger than fiction -- A wrinkle in time -- Decay and rubble -- From here to eternity: Shedding light on the sun -- Desperate times and desperate measure -- March of the titans -- Endless forms most beautiful: Symmetry strikes back -- Cold, stark reality: Breaking bad or beautiful? -- Living inside a superconductor -- The bearable heaviness of being: Symmetry broken, physics fixed -- The wrong place at the right time -- The fog lifts -- Free at last -- Spanking the vacuum -- Gothic cathedrals of the twenty-first century -- More questions than answers -- From a beer party to the end of time -- Cosmic humility.
Summary:
"In A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence Krauss explained how our entire universe could arise from nothing. Now he reveals what that something -- reality -- is. And, reality is not what we think or sense -- it's weird, wild, and counterintuitive; it's hidden beneath everyday experience; and its inner workings seem even stranger than the idea that something can come from nothing. In a work of scientific history, Krauss leads us to the furthest reaches of space and time, to scales so small they are invisible to microscopes, to the birth and rebirth of light, and into the natural forces that govern our existence. His unique blend of research and storytelling invites us into the lives and minds of the scientists who have helped to unravel the unexpected fabric of reality -- with reason rather than superstition and dogma. Krauss has himself been an active participant in this effort, and he knows many of them well. The Greatest Story challenges us to re-envision ourselves and our place within the universe, as it appears that "God" does play dice with the universe." -- (Source of summary not specified.)
Series:
Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
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