This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where

"A worthy addition to the Feynman shelf and a welcome follow-up to the standard-bearer, James Gleick's Genius." —Kirkus Reviews Perhaps the greatest physicist

In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddleof existence from the ancient world to modern times.

From award-winning physicist, public intellectual, and the bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing Lawrence Krauss, comes “a masterful blend of history,