autistic_dragon 's review for:

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss

5.0

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This is a book that makes you think on a very deep level. It demolishes one of the last bastions of theism: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" by revealing science's contributions to a question normally marked off for philosophers and theologians, and exploding the traditional notion of "nothing"— that true void we all think of does not exist, and that nothingness is unstable and turns into something. It also points out the eschatological ramifications that physics have led us to–not only the eventual return to nothingness, but the collapse of the ability to properly observe the universe, and the scientific method leading future (as in trillions of years later) cosmologists to wrong conclusions. Krauss also points out that while future discoveries might invalidate that, the universe doesn't give a four-letter-word about what is comforting to humans. All in all, this an eye-opening book