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The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?
by Lawrence M. Krauss
The book starts with a bang as follows
"In the beginning there was light.
But more than this, there was gravity.
After that, all hell broke loose…"
After this I held on dearly for a thrilling ride. A page turner that exfoliates the complexities of physics, time and space. It lays out how discoveries in physics have happened, from the time of Plato to Faraday, Einstein and now Higgs-Boson. This book is an epitome of teaching science via storytelling. Each chapter builds on the previous one and there never seems to be a loss of continuity in the storyline. Krauss shows how each seemingly obscure research makes human life better. Instead of making the 'unknown' of how & why we are here dreary, he makes it inspirational and urges us all to move away from a solipsistic mind-set to a free-inquiry mode which would arouse curiosity of future generations. Krauss in his inimitable style makes physics easy to imbibe and imbue, but not patronizingly simple enough. This book has piqued my interest in physics and I do plan to continue my path to learning more on these seemingly-obscure topics.
"In the beginning there was light.
But more than this, there was gravity.
After that, all hell broke loose…"
After this I held on dearly for a thrilling ride. A page turner that exfoliates the complexities of physics, time and space. It lays out how discoveries in physics have happened, from the time of Plato to Faraday, Einstein and now Higgs-Boson. This book is an epitome of teaching science via storytelling. Each chapter builds on the previous one and there never seems to be a loss of continuity in the storyline. Krauss shows how each seemingly obscure research makes human life better. Instead of making the 'unknown' of how & why we are here dreary, he makes it inspirational and urges us all to move away from a solipsistic mind-set to a free-inquiry mode which would arouse curiosity of future generations. Krauss in his inimitable style makes physics easy to imbibe and imbue, but not patronizingly simple enough. This book has piqued my interest in physics and I do plan to continue my path to learning more on these seemingly-obscure topics.