Lawrence Krauss, a renowned theoretical physicist, is director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and nine books, including the international bestsellers, A Universe from Nothing and The Physics of Star Trek. The recipient of numerous awards, Krauss is a regular columnist for newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, and he appears frequently on radio, television, and in feature films. Krauss lives in Portland, Oregon, and Tempe, Arizona.
Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the acclaimed author of many books including The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show on Earth. Visit him at RichardDawkins.net.
"A series of brilliant insights and astonishing discoveries have
rocked the Universe in recent years, and Lawrence Krauss has been
in the thick of it. With his characteristic verve, and using many
clever devices, he's made that remarkable story remarkably
accessible. The climax is a bold scientific answer to the great
question of existence: Why is there something rather than nothing."
-- Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate and Herman Feshbach professor at
MIT, author of The Lightness of Being
"Astronomers at the beginning of the twentieth century were
wondering whether there was anything beyond our Milky Way Galaxy.
As Lawrence Krauss lucidly explains, astronomers living two
trillion years from now, will perhaps be pondering precisely the
same question! Beautifully navigating through deep intellectual
waters, Krauss presents the most recent ideas on the nature of our
cosmos, and of our place within it. A fascinating read." -- Mario
Livio, author of Is God A Mathematician? and The Golden Ratio
"We have been living through a revolution in cosmology as wondrous
as that initiated by Copernicus. Here is the essential, engrossing
and brilliant guide." --Ian McEwan
"[An] excellent guide to cutting-edge physics... It is detailed but
lucid, thorough but not stodgy... [an] insightful book... Space and
time can indeed come from nothing; nothing, as Krauss explains
beautifully. ...A Universe From Nothing is a great book: readable,
informative and topical."--New Scientist
"An eloquent guide to our expanding universe... There have been a
number of fine cosmology books published recently but few have gone
so far, and none so eloquently, in exploring why it is unnecessary
to invoke God to light the blue touchpaper and set the universe in
motion."
--Financial Times
"How physicists came up with the current model of the cosmos is
quite a story, and to tell it in his elegant A Universe From
Nothing, physicist Lawrence Krauss walks a carefully laid path...
It would be easy for this remarkable story to revel in
self-congratulation, but Krauss steers it soberly and with grace...
His asides on how he views each piece of science and its chances of
being right are refreshingly honest...unstable nothingness, as
described by Krauss... is also invigorating for the rest of us,
because in this nothingness there are many wonderful things to see
and understand."--Nature
"In A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence Krauss has written a
thrilling introduction to the current state of cosmology--the
branch of science that tells us about the deep past and deeper
future of everything. As it turns out, everything has a lot to do
with nothing--and nothing to do with God. This is a brilliant and
disarming book."-- Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape
"In A Universe From Nothing, Lawrence Krauss, celebrated physicist,
speaker and author, tackles all that plus a whole lot else. In
fewer than 200 pages, he delivers a spirited, fast-paced romp
through modern cosmology and its strong underpinnings in
astronomical observations and particle physics theory.Krauss's slim
volume is bolder in its premise and more ambitious in its scope
than most. He makes a persuasive case that the ultimate question of
cosmic origin - how something, namely the universe, could arise
from nothing - belongs in the realm of science rather than theology
or philosophy."--Globe & Mail
"Nothing is not nothing. Nothing is something. That's how a cosmos
can be spawned from the void -- a profound idea conveyed in A
Universe From Nothing that unsettles some yet enlightens others.
Meanwhile, it's just another day on the job for physicist Lawrence
Krauss."
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural
History
"In this clear and crisply written book, Lawrence Krauss outlines
the compelling evidence that our complex cosmos has evolved from a
hot, dense state and how this progress has emboldened theorists to
develop fascinating speculations about how things really
began."
-- Martin Rees, author of Our Final Hour
"With characteristic wit, eloquence and clarity Lawrence Krauss
gives a wonderfully illuminating account of how science deals with
one of the biggest questions of all: how the universe's existence
could arise from nothing. It is a question that philosophy and
theology get themselves into muddle over, but that science can
offer real answers to, as Krauss's lucid explanation shows. Here is
the triumph of physics over metaphysics, reason and enquiry over
obfuscation and myth, made plain for all to see: Krauss gives us a
treat as well as an education in fascinating style."
--A. C. Grayling, author of The Good Book
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