one has to hope that this book won't appeal only to the partisans of the culture wars - it's just too good and interesting for that. As compelling as it is intriguing."-Publishers Weekly "Krauss possesses a rare talent for making the hardest ideas in astrophysics accessible to the layman, due in part to his sly humor.
A thoughtful, challenging book."-Kirkus "Lively and humorous as well as informative. 'We are like the early terrestrial mapmakers, ' Krauss writes, puzzling out what was once solely the province of our imaginations."-Mother Jones "The author delivers plenty of jolts in this enthusiastic and lucid but demanding overview of the universe, which includes plenty of mysteries-but its origin isn't among them. There's some intellectual heavy lifting here-Einstein is the main character, after all-but the concepts are articulated clearly, and the thrill of discovery is contagious. In fact, something big happens to you during this book about cosmic nothing, and before you can help it, your mind will be expanding as rapidly as the early universe."-Sam Kean, author of The Disappearing Spoon "With its mind-bending mechanics, Krauss argues, our universe may indeed have appeared from nowhere, rather than at the hands of a divine creator. Thankfully, Lawrence Krauss didn't listen.
Recommended."-Library Journal "People always say you can't get something from nothing. Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking."His arguments for the birth of the universe out of nothingness from a physical, rather than theological, beginning not only are logical but celebrate the wonder of our natural universe. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved-and the implications for how it’s going to end. One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?” Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.
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