The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far : Why Are We Here? (Paperback)

from applemcg

Readable, but for the nuclear stew. Let that pass deeper understanding and focus on the history lesson. Krauss builds the intellectual pyramid from Newton's base layering insights of Rutherford, Einstein, Dirac, Pauli, Feynman, the teams that built CERN, didn't build the SSC, at last built the La...

from BillieBook

After reading this book, I feel smarter but also still incredibly stupid. I am fascinated by the study of physics and by the amazing discoveries still being made in the field, but, no matter how much I read, I still feel like I just don't really understand physics. And that's okay. I'll just keep...

from pgiunta

Following up on his previous book, A Universe from Nothing, Dr. Krauss walks us through why (meaning "how") we attained our current level of understanding of the natural world and the cosmos. Beginning with the properties and laws governing light and motion, Krauss then takes several chapters to ...

from waldhaus1

A fascinating and in the end overwhelming explanation of particle physics. That the properties of the universe aren't intuitive I readily accept. I wonder if contemporary physics isn't in need of a great understanding and simplification just as the Copernican understanding have is a simpler under...

from antao

Can't think of anything worse (saw Krauss once in ridicule mode and couldn't take the man seriously after that - any person who tries to win an argument involving ridicule - which is a kind of imposition of your own will over others - doesn't deserve the respect to be listened to - full stop). A...