Bibliograph

The greatest story ever told--so far, why are we here?, Lawrence M. Krauss

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The greatest story ever told--so far, why are we here?, Lawrence M. Krauss

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The greatest story ever told--so far

Oclc number

952647432

Responsibility statement

Lawrence M. Krauss

Sub title

why are we here?

Summary

An award-winning theoretical physicist and best-selling author of A Universe from Nothing traces the dramatic discovery of the counterintuitive world of reality, explaining how readers can shift their perspectives to gain greater understandings of our individual roles in the universe. --Publisher

Table Of Contents

part 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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

Target audience

adult

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Why are we here?

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