Grande libro!! This is a great book, the first I read to describe clearly and understandably the origin of the universe and the concept of void.
Also, the narration is well connected to the arts and philosophy; and to the millennial fight between idealism and materialism. Fortunately, materialism wins, but not the kind of hard, Laplacian materialism.
Instead Tonelli introduces us to the undeterministic nature of materialism—the one that produces only one liberatory conclusion; even matter (and the universe) decays and dies, like us. There’s no consolation then and no need to think that while we die, matter stays.
Like many other similar books, this deals (better) with the origin of everything. The majestic, poetic birth of the universe rests upon one little sub-particle popping out of the void. Then the inflation begins and everything else—photons, quarks and their friends—come to being created, without the need of a creator. Because, you see, void in an illusion: it does not exist as we imagine. And in it a lot of stuff may happen.