A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781455155613 (1455155616)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
bookshelves: autumn-2015, sciences, tbr-busting-2015, spaaaaaace, published-2012, nonfic-nov-2015, nonfiction, cosmic-archaeology, anthropic-mania Read from January 13, 2013 to November 25, 2015 Description: A wildly popular lecture now on YouTube has attracted almost a million viewers. One que...
Finally got it today from a local bookshop.Lectures link to this subject by Lawrence KraussDarwin Week 2012 - Lawrence Krauss: "A Universe from Nothing"Just found out that his other lecture on the same subject has more than a million views. Wow.'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009T...
Interesting, easy to read, but probably won't convince those who have already decided the answer is 'God'. Obviously, doesn't definitively answer why there is, in fact, something rather than nothing, but does a good job of explaining space/time, inflation, anthropic principle etc in a non technical ...
The author does a good job of interpreting some of the latest information on cosmology in lay language. Especially good at explaining how ideas like inflation, multiple universes, and the energy of empty space are not just ideas dreamed up to explain the unknown, but are driven by data.
This book was okay. Could've done without all the atheist name-dropping. Krauss is trying to be a fifth Horseman (or Beatle). The writing is not particularly clever. There was some new information in it about the shape of the universe that I was previously unaware/unclear about, not being a cosmolog...
9 years ago
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