The greatest story ever told--so far : why are we here?
by Krauss, Lawrence M., 1954- (Author)
Summary
"In this grand poetic vision of nature, internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world that underlies reality--and how we find our place within it. ln his New York Times bestselling book A Universe from N... Full description
- Prologue
- Part One. Genesis. 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 infinity : shedding light on the sun
- Part Two. Exodus. Desperate times and desperate measures
- 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
- Part Three. Revelation. 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.