Lawrence M. Krauss
Author of The Physics of Star Trek
About the Author
Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist. Krauss is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major U.S. physics show more societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics. Lawrence Krauss received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from Carleton University and his Ph.D. in physics from MIT. Krauss taught at Yale University and was Chairman of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University. Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including The Fifth Essence (1991), Fear of Physics (1994), The Physics of Star Trek (1995), Beyond Star Trek (1997), Quintessence (2001), Atom (2002), Hiding in the Mirror (2005), Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (2010), and A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (2012). (Bowker Author Biography) Lawrence M. Krauss is the bestselling author of "The Physics of Star Trek", among others. He received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT & now chairs the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University. (Publisher Provided) show less
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Works by Lawrence M. Krauss
Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, from Plato to String Theory and Beyond (2005) 338 copies
The Known Unknowns: A Brief Account of What We Know and What We Don't Know About the Cosmos (2023) 9 copies
The Known Unknowns: A Brief Account of What We Know and What We Don't Know About the Cosmos (2023) 5 copies
Associated Works
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Contributor — 800 copies
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Contributor — 632 copies
Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin (2014) — Afterword — 147 copies
Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology (v. 1) (2002) — Foreword — 34 copies
Elephants in Space : The Past, Present and Future of Life and the Universe (2002) — Foreword, some editions — 12 copies
Readings in Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy: Physics 361-01 Cosmology, Spring Semester 1995 (1995) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell
- Birthdate
- 1954-05-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Education
- Carleton University (1977)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD|Physics|1982) - Occupations
- theoretical physicist
cosmologist
non-fiction writer
university teacher - Organizations
- Arizona State University
Yale University
Harvard Society of Fellows
Case Western Reserve University
Federation of American Scientists
New College of the Humanities (show all 7)
Australian National University - Awards and honors
- Presidential Investigator Award (1984)
Oersted Medal (2004)
Joseph A. Burton Forum Award (2005)
National Science Board's Public Service Medal (2012)
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (2001)
Andrew Gemant Award (2001) (show all 11)
American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award (2002)
Oersted Medal (2003)
Center for Inquiry World Congress Science in the Public Interest Award (2009)
Helen Sawyer Hogg Prize (2009)
Humanist of the Year (2015)
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LO QUE SABEMOS QUE NO SABEMOS: LOS MISTERIOS NO… by Lawrence M. Krauss
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I learned a lot and became more curious about cosmology. I am glad I read the book.
3 stars because the book does not fulfill its promise. The book lays out the author’s knowledge of cosmology and physics at length. Only towards the end of the book does he starts addressing the question, but not really because he does not really like the question. You can tell it would force him to go outside of physics and cosmology, like philosophy, and he does not want to venture out there. Ultimately, he answers with something along the lines of “perhaps nothingness is an unstable state”. Ok, fair.
The book just does not fulfill its promise of taking a serious shot at all aspects of the question. Don’t get me wrong: you definitely learn a lot of cosmology and physics that are relevant to the question from reading the book.… (more)
3 stars because the book does not fulfill its promise. The book lays out the author’s knowledge of cosmology and physics at length. Only towards the end of the book does he starts addressing the question, but not really because he does not really like the question. You can tell it would force him to go outside of physics and cosmology, like philosophy, and he does not want to venture out there. Ultimately, he answers with something along the lines of “perhaps nothingness is an unstable state”. Ok, fair.
The book just does not fulfill its promise of taking a serious shot at all aspects of the question. Don’t get me wrong: you definitely learn a lot of cosmology and physics that are relevant to the question from reading the book.… (more)
I'll confess: a lot of this was over my head. (I tell myself that's largely because I was listening to the audiobook instead of reading the text, which makes it easier to quickly re-scan some confusing bit of deepness.) Nonetheless, it was a rewarding book because of the sense of deep connection with the universe it evokes. I will very probably read Krauss' other pop-science book, "A Universe from Nothing".
Surface level popsci, the physics topics that Krauss knows are covered well enough but not better than any other book in this genre. The topics he doesn't know are skimmed over like you'd hear on a podcast.
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