Title:
The greatest story ever told--so far : why are we here?
Author:
ISBN:
9781432838980
Edition:
Large print edition.
Physical Description:
pages (large print) cm.
Contents:
Prologue -- Part One. Genesis. From the armoire to the cave -- Seeing in the dark -- Through a glass, lightly -- There, and back again -- A stitch in time -- The shadows of reality -- A universe stranger than fiction -- A wrinkle in time -- Decay and rubble -- From here to infinity : shedding light on the sun -- Part Two. Exodus. Desperate times and desperate measures -- March of the titans -- Endless forms most beautiful : symmetry strikes back -- Cold, stark reality : breaking bad or beautiful? -- Living inside a superconductor -- The bearable heaviness of being : symmetry broken, physics fixed -- Part Three. Revelation. The wrong place at the right time -- The fog lifts -- Free at last -- Spanking the vacuum -- Gothic cathedrals of the twenty-first century -- More questions than answers -- From a beer party to the end of time -- Cosmic humility
Local Subject:
Summary:
An award-winning theoretical physicist and best-selling author of A Universe from Nothing traces the dramatic discovery of the counterintuitive world of reality, explaining how readers can shift their perspectives to gain greater understandings of our individual roles in the universe. --Publisher.
