Book Review Lawrence M Krauss A Universe From Nothing

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2012 – Simon And Shuster Lawrence Krauss is one of the great scientists of our age, on par with Einstein, Hawking, Dawkins, and Sagan. In this short book, he attempts to explain why there is a Universe rather than an infinite vacuum-void, and he shows how it is possible without the need for a God. We think of the gaps between the stars as empty, but that is far from the case. A great deal of energy and sub-atomic activity is going on there. Physicists have estimated the weight of the Universe from the effects of gravity and it is considerably heavier than the visible and known tar and planets allow. There is a great deal of dark matter out there, giving literal weight to the paces between the material we can directly observe. Krauss and his team argue radically that true nothing is impossible as matter and anti-matter sub-atomica erupts spontaneously into existence but the two opposing forces usually wipe one another out just as instantly. Somehow, the matter-state gained too much of a hold and generated the entire Cosmos, creating a Universe anti-matter cannot get into. Krauss is eminently readable, and as the added Youtube shows, also watchable. His book makes great sense while I read it, but his ideas transcend my grasp of incredibly complex laws of physics, super-string theory and Quantum Mechanics. Such ideas often turn my mind to silly-putty. A Universe From Nothing is on par with Hawkings’s Brief History Of Time as one of the most important popular science books of all time. Youtube Arthur Chappell