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Krauss has a gift for infecting his reader with passion. I could not help but love and be awed by all that he loved and was awed by. Many authors who choose to include equations in their popsci books do so at great risk of losing the non-scientist. Krauss makes everything so simple, you cannot get lost. Enjoyable from beginning to end.
In his book, Lawrence M. Krauss asks the question of why there is something instead of nothing, that is, why does the universe exists instead of not existing. Why are we here, doing what we do, instead of not being here. While this opens up inevitable questions regarding the meaning of life, the universe, and questions regarding a possible creator, Krauss is more focused on looking at how physics explains the existence of the universe. He looks at scientific discoveries that have shaped and push
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The author describes theoretical speculations on the origins of the universe from a state where matter, energy, time, space, and the laws of physics are absent (i.e., "nothing") to the universe we see today ("something") via theories of inflation, quantum field theory (e.g., virtual particles), quantum gravity, spontaneous symmetry breaking, etc., without resorting to philosphical precepts or theological concepts, all in a way that can be grasped by the general reader
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This book is a postulation on how we can explain the existence of the universe without the hand of a "Creator" using quantum mechanics as the primary enabler. A bit challenging to read though as Krauss isn't as articulate and skilled at translating esoteric physics concepts into ideas that the layman can grasp as say a Brian Greene is (who Krauss takes a soft swipe at when he talks briefly about String Theory) I'll most likely have to read this a second time to fully grasp the implications of th
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