Lawrence Krauss's new book.

Animavore · #1 by **Animavore** » Jan 03, 2012 10:21 pm

Lawrence Krauss has a new book coming out in 6 days inspired by this lecture and with the same title, A Universe From Nothing.

It aims to go into more detail on the subjects and ideas covered here and some of the other ones he didn't have time for.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universe-Nothin ... 145162445X
http://www.amazon.com/Universe-Nothing- ... 145162445X

A definite buy for me.

hackenslash · #2 by **hackenslash** » Jan 03, 2012 10:23 pm

Animavore · #3 by **Animavore** » Jan 03, 2012 10:29 pm

A damn! Not 'til 16th Feb over here. 10th Jan for America.

cavarka9 · #4 by **cavarka9** » Jan 03, 2012 10:48 pm

this might be very good, perhaps a good discussion of dark energy ?.

orpheus · #5 by **orpheus** » Jan 04, 2012 12:04 am

(Uncle Orph'sTM popcorn - "Watch this space" )

(get it?)

Seriously, I'm excited about this. It's going on my wish list.

Animavore · #6 by **Animavore** » Jan 04, 2012 12:09 am

It's going on my infinite (at this stage) wishlist. But luckily due to the oddness of infinity I've managed to move everything else down the list one place leaving a space in number one for it to occupy.

Animavore · #7 by **Animavore** » Jan 04, 2012 12:11 am

cavarka9 wrote:this might be very good, perhaps a good discussion of dark energy ?.

I'm sure dark energy will feature heavily. Probably around 70%.

cavarka9 · #8 by **cavarka9** » Jan 04, 2012 12:14 am

loved that second video, thanks, I am gonna hunt down that book. I will have it, I will have it, I will have it even if someone else has to pay for it!. :shifty:

Animavore · #9 by **Animavore** » Jan 04, 2012 12:18 am

It's coming out as an audiobook and kindle too so it may find it's way on the net for those in countries outside the copyright area :whistle:

cavarka9 · **#10** by **cavarka9** » Jan 04, 2012 12:48 am

Animavore wrote:It's coming out as an audiobook and kindle too so it may find it's way on the net for those in countries outside the copyright area

serves them right, better get someone else to buy it in that area and get it posted to me but it would be a bit more costly. Any way, thanks. :pirate:

Onyx8 · **#11** by **Onyx8** » Jan 04, 2012 2:36 am

Animavore wrote:Lawrence Krauss has a new book coming out in 6 days inspired by this lecture and with the same title, A Universe From Nothing.

It aims to go into more detail on the subjects and ideas covered here and some of the other ones he didn't have time for.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universe-Nothin ... skept01-21
http://www.amazon.com/Universe-Nothing- ... nskepti-20

A definite buy for me.

Love that talk, this aging brain can benefit from watching that every once in a while. I look forward to his latest book too.

Anyone read the one he wrote on Feynman?

hackenslash · **#12** by **hackenslash** » Jan 04, 2012 8:58 am

Animavore wrote:
cavarka9 wrote:this might be very good, perhaps a good discussion of dark energy ?.

I'm sure dark energy will feature heavily. Probably around 70%.

xtraordinaryevidence · **#13** by **xtraordinaryevidence** » Jan 04, 2012 11:10 am

I've never been this excited about a book release before. I've watched the talk at least five times. It's going to be great to get a lot more detail.

crank · **#14** by **crank** » Jan 05, 2012 1:22 am

Heehee I ordered Dec 16 :grin:

, saw it when I was ordering Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
By: Michael S. Gazzaniga and The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
By: Robert Trivers. The last one will be oh so useful for this place.

crank · **#15** by **crank** » Jan 05, 2012 1:29 am

Onyx8 wrote:
Anyone read the one he wrote on Feynman?

Not me, and I sure don't plan on exhuming the body just for a good read.

Onyx8 · **#16** by **Onyx8** » Jan 05, 2012 2:20 am

Ba-dum tish.

fraser · **#17** by **fraser** » Jan 05, 2012 2:46 am

I'll head stateside to pick it up earlier if it is available.

Spearthrower · **#18** by **Spearthrower** » Jan 05, 2012 8:27 am

Animavore wrote:
cavarka9 wrote:this might be very good, perhaps a good discussion of dark energy ?.

I'm sure dark energy will feature heavily. Probably around 70%.

It would be kind of amusing if he left 70% of the pages blank with a foreword stating that dark energy accounted for it. :grin:

andyx1205 · **#19** by **andyx1205** » Jan 05, 2012 10:57 am

I saw that a longgg time ago and I loved it, Krauss is a great communicator! Highly recommended.

Made of Stars · **#20** by **Made of Stars** » Jan 05, 2012 11:20 am

Sam Harris interviews Laurence Krauss on the new book:

Indeed, the question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” which forms the subtitle of the book, is often used by the faithful as an unassailable argument that requires the existence of God, because of the famous claim, “out of nothing, nothing comes.” While the chief point of my book is to describe for the interested layperson the remarkable revolutions that have taken place in our understanding of the universe over the past 50 years—revolutions that should be celebrated as pinnacles of our intellectual experience—the second goal is to point out that this long-held theological claim is spurious. Modern science has made the something-from-nothing debate irrelevant...

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/ever ... d-nothing/