The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far

If your into asking yourself deep questions about the physical world then this is the book for you. I am an ardent follower and fan of prof Lawrence Krauss and I absolutely adore his free thinking. This book represents the transition of ideas, thoughts and imagination of the greatest minds in science and on the other end of the spectrum talks about how those ideas have contributed to what we are now. It is beautifully put together and puts you in an uncomfortable state,well that's what science is for as Krauss says.Mr.krauss is an amazing physicist and an educator and of course a superb rational thinker. I would recommend every body to read a "universe from nothing" written by krauss first and later dig your mind into this one. Plus you should know a bit of physics as certain chapters are a bit technical. It's a highly recommended book. Go ahead check it out. Enjoy reading!

Truly informative. Good book for lovers of Physics and particularly nuclear physics and Particles. Enjoyed reading it but you have to go slow and understand step by step.

One of the greatest books ever written on how science slugs along its unfathomable journey.

Another great book from Lawrence Krauss and a must read for every science enthusiast.

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The author clearly knows his physics, but either he or his publisher (I suspect the latter) are unfamiliar with the Trade Descriptions Act! This book does NOT address the issue promised in the title, but instead summarizes the various breakthroughs in theoretical physics, quantum mechanics and related fields over the past 100 years or so and in a dry, dense and impenetrable fashion. It was almost enough to kill off my interest in physics and cosmology so be warned. Instead read 'Parallel Worlds' by Michio Kaku and 'Seven Brief Lessons On Physics' by Carlo Rovelli or anything by Richard P. Feynman and give this a miss - even if you see dozens of cheap copies in your local charity shop.

A brilliant book overall. I found some of the topics, gauge theory for example, left me feeling very ignorant for not comprehending them. I say this having an honours degree in physics.

Ram Dass ( Richard Alpert) was asked by Bernard Levin a long time ago, "you seem to be suggesting that we are (in life) just going around in circles, surely that negates the whole point of us!" He replied...... "Ah Bernard, it is the going around in circles that has the point to it!"At the cosmic and the atomic / sub atomic scale the universe beggars belief; what an incredible stroke of fortune to live, somehow, to be part of not understanding it.My awareness of my ignorance is my enlightenment!

Stunning. Slow burn, so stick with it, but it unfolds magnificently and takes you on a journey that really will widen your horizons and blow your mind. The universe is VAST and we are minor molecular ciphers making our way to who knows where? The book airs some interesting questions and posits some lucid answers, predicated on experimental evidence and historical progress. In many ways, it reads as a personal polemic, filled with interesting anecdotes and peopled with physicists who should have been household names who never got their due, or who did much later in life. Yes, there’s some heavy science in there, but it is a wonderful story, beautifully told.

This book was informative but marred by describing the history of Physics against the context of religious belief. The author is a humanist physicist wedded to the Dawkins crusade against religion (especially the Anglican tradition which Dawkins grew up in).I find this sort of polemic distracting and irrelevant to the pursuit of truth knowledge and wisdom through the appliance of science. For this reason I can only offer two stars at best.If you can cut through the hidden agenda it is worth a read because the history leading up to modern day particle physics, quantum theory, and. cosmology is both humbling and impressive.