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artemisevrenstardust 's review for:
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
by Lawrence M. Krauss
In his Afterword for this book, which was originally going to be written by Christopher Hitchens before his health deteriorated, Richard Dawkins writes, "If 'On the Origin of Species' was biology's deadliest blow to supernaturalism, we may come to see 'A Universe from Nothing' as the equivalent from cosmology."
It is a high compliment, but one I couldn't disagree with. Krauss' style is dense of course, and this took seven months to read - using both my physical copy and the audiobook from the library. Many paragraphs need to be read over several times, and I am no scientist or mathematician, much less a cosmologist. Still, the concepts are made very accessible with concentration, and I know now things I didn't before - like that we've measured how far we can see into the depths of space with a balloon in Antarctica, and how light "bounces" off of black holes, and how bubbles of unstable stuff can pop out of nothing for infinitesimal fractions of a second. It was well worth the read!
It is a high compliment, but one I couldn't disagree with. Krauss' style is dense of course, and this took seven months to read - using both my physical copy and the audiobook from the library. Many paragraphs need to be read over several times, and I am no scientist or mathematician, much less a cosmologist. Still, the concepts are made very accessible with concentration, and I know now things I didn't before - like that we've measured how far we can see into the depths of space with a balloon in Antarctica, and how light "bounces" off of black holes, and how bubbles of unstable stuff can pop out of nothing for infinitesimal fractions of a second. It was well worth the read!