The greatest story ever told--so far why are we here?

"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...

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Main Author: Krauss, Lawrence M., 1954- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Atria Books, [2017]
Edition:First Atria hardcover edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.