Lawrence M. Krauss

STEPHEN FRY ha dicho: «Qué consecución: ciencia; la belleza de la ciencia; la belleza de la ciencia expresada maravillosamente. Incluso un pobre ignorante como yo puede participar de la emoción de los hitos en la exploración del universo que Lawrence Krauss describe con tan fascinante claridad y generosa autoridad. Un libro que es un despertar de nuestra capacidad para maravillarnos».
Para NOAM CHOMSKY es «Un viaje fascinante, con un guía experto y minucioso, a través de los dominios de lo que conocemos razonablemente bien, de aquello que al menos podemos pensar seriamente y de esas tentadoras áreas que permanecen más allá de nuestro alcance».… (mehr)

I learned a lot and became more curious about cosmology. I am glad I read the book.

3 stars because the book does not fulfill its promise. The book lays out the author’s knowledge of cosmology and physics at length. Only towards the end of the book does he starts addressing the question, but not really because he does not really like the question. You can tell it would force him to go outside of physics and cosmology, like philosophy, and he does not want to venture out there. Ultimately, he answers with something along the lines of “perhaps nothingness is an unstable state”. Ok, fair.

The book just does not fulfill its promise of taking a serious shot at all aspects of the question. Don’t get me wrong: you definitely learn a lot of cosmology and physics that are relevant to the question from reading the book.… (mehr)