A Universe from nothing: why there is something rather than nothing. Lawrence M. Krauss. 2012.

Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?

Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the centre of religious  and philosophical debates about the existence of God, and it is the supposed counter -argument to anyone who questions the need for God.

Now, in a cosmological story that rivets as it enlightens, pioneering theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the groundbreaking new scientific advances that turn the most basic philosophical questions on their heads. One of the few prominent scientists to have actively crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss reveals that modern science is addressing the question of why there is something rather than nothing with surprising and fascinating results. The staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories suggest that not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing.