Posted: Apr 25, 2012 1:28 pm
Teuton wrote:Krauss has been fooling around with the word "nothing". His book's title should read "A Universe From Something: Why there is something rather than nothing is a question that isn't answered in this book". Of course, the misleading title he chose sells better.
Given that the whole point of the book is that the idea of "nothing" as being an absence of "something" has no basis in physics, I'd think a little poetic licence is forgiveable.
Still, perhaps you were also disappointed by the lack of tarmac in Roger Penrose's The Road To Reality, or that Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell was rather short on nuts?