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    Cover of A Universe from Nothing

    A Universe from Nothing

    Lawrence Maxwell Krauss · 2010

    author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the most basic philosophical questions: Where did our universe come from? Why is there something rather than nothing? And how is it all going to end? Why is there something rather than nothing?" is asked of anyone who says there is no God. Yet this is not so much a philosophical or religious question as it is a question about the natural world--and until now there has not been a satisfying scientific answer. Today, exciting scientific advances provide new insight into this cosmological mystery: Not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With his wonderfully clear arguments and wry humor, pioneering physicist Lawrence Krauss explains how in this fascinating antidote to outmoded philosophical and religious thinking. As he puts it in his entertaining video of the same title, which has received over 675,000 hits, "Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be born." A mind-bending trip back to the beginning of the beginning, A Universe from Nothing authoritatively presents the most recent evidence that explains how our universe evolved--and the implications for how it's going to end. It will provoke, challenge, and delight readers to look at the most basic underpinnings of existence in a whole new way. And this knowledge that our universe will be quite different in the future from today has profound implications and directly affects how we live in the present.

    Physics & Cosmology
    Open LibraryAmazon
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    What Hacker News says

    1. pachicoMar 2020
      This article helped me to understand a great talk by Lawrence Krauss which then became the book A Universe from Nothing.
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    2. axegon_Dec 2019
      * The Brain by David Eagleman

      * Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

      * A Universe From Nothing by Lawrence Krauss

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    3. dmitrybrantJul 2019
      It's not difficult to derive why the gravitational potential energy must be negative.[0]

      For the cosmological implications of this fact, there's Lawrence Krauss's book "A Universe from Nothing", also "The Inflationary Universe" by Alan Guth, and Stephen Hawking touches on it in "A Brief History of Time."

      [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_energy

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    4. natchApr 2018
      Lawrence Krauss’ “A Universe from Nothing” might be of interest. Can’t say I’ve read it but it’s on my reading list and sounds good, and exactly on topic.
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    5. Adam_OAug 2015
      Here are 3 that I particularly liked in the last few years:

      The Information, James Gleick

      A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence Krauss

      Abundance, Peter Diamandis

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    6. spenroseAug 2014
      I highly recommend Krauss' book A Universe From Nothing on this topic.
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