Description: "Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss explores science's greatest unanswered questions"--
Brief description: Lawrence M. Krauss is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and acclaimed lecturer. A passionate advocate for science and reason, and the public understanding of science, he is the author of twelve popular books, including the international bestsellers The Physics of Star Trek, A Universe from Nothing, and his most recent book, The Edge of Knowledge. He received his PhD from MIT and then moved the Harvard Society of Fellows. Following eight years as a Professor at Yale University, at age 38 he was appointed to endowed chair, and has held endowed chairs universities in the US, Australia and the UK. He has made significant contributions to physics and cosmology and is the recipient of numerous international awards for his research and writing. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, Chair of the Board of the Free Speech Union, Canada, and host of The Origins Podcast.
Review Quotes: "A teacher once told me that the purpose of education was to impart awareness of one's ignorance, and out of that come humility and curiosity. Lawrence Krauss is the joyous incarnation of that teacher. His prose is limpid, his manner is patient and good-willed. He uses an archaeologist's brush (as it were) to dab at the outer limits of our understanding. He is one of our finest and most readable celebrators and explicators of science, and in The Edge of Knowledge he has found his perfect subject. Both layperson and scientist can travel with Krauss and know the thrill of both the known unknowns and the anticipation of the unknown unknowns. The Edge of Knowledge is also a precious cabinet of curiosities--I did not know that black holes were first proposed by a clergyman in 1783. Science has taught us much in the past 400 years, but the basics of the everyday--time, space, matter, consciousness and life itself--do not yet have their definitive descriptions. Krauss convinces his reader that 'there remain remarkable mysteries to be uncovered.' As Darwin famously observed, there is grandeur in this view of life."--Ian McEwan, author of Lessons and Machines Like Me