*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
"Vivid . . . impressive. . . . Splendidly informative."—The New York Times
"Suceeds spectacularly."—Science
"A tour de force."—Salon
Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most
challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the
greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary
intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on
our deepest personal questions: Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our
beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void?
Do human purpose and meaning fit into a