| Edition |
First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xii, 322 pages : photographs, illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes an index. |
| Summary |
In a work of scientific history, author Lawrence Krauss leads us to the furthest reaches of space and time, to scales so small they are invisible to microscopes, to the birth and rebirth of light, and into the natural forces that govern our existence. His unique blend of rigorous research and engaging storytelling invites us into the lives and minds of the remarkable, creative scientists who have helped to unravel the unexpected fabric of reality-with reason rather than superstition and dogma. Krauss has himself been an active participant in this effort, and he knows many of them well. The Greatest Story challenges us to re-envision ourselves and our place within the universe, as it appears that “God” does play dice with the universe. In the incisive style of his scintillating essays for The New Yorker, Krauss celebrates the greatest intellectual adventure ever undertaken-to understand why we are here in a universe where fact is stranger than fiction. |
| Contents |
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 eternity: shedding light on the sun -- Part two. Exodus -- Desperate times and desperate measure -- 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. |
| Subject(S) |
Physics -- Philosophy.
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Reality.
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Space and time.
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Quantum theory.
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Cosmology.
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Fourth dimension.
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| Added Title |
Why are we here? |
| ISBN |
9781476777610 |
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1476777616 |
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