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The provided prologue presents the work as a scientific quest to uncover hidden realities, emphasizing intellectual creativity, bravery, and the willingness to discard dogma. The outline spans three arcs—Genesis, Exodus, and Revelation—moving from early explorations of physical reality through major developments in physics and culminating in a perspective of cosmic humility.","Praise for The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far  \n“In every debate I’ve done with theologians and religious believers, their knock-out final argument always comes in the form of two questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? and Why are we here? The presumption is that if science provides no answers then there must be a God. But God or no, we still want answers. In A Universe from Nothing Lawrence Krauss, one of the biggest thinkers of our time, addressed the first question with verve, and in The Greatest Story Ever Told he tackles the second with elegance. Both volumes should be placed in hotel rooms across America, in the drawer next to the Gideon Bible.”  \n—Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Moral Arc  \n“A Homeric tale of science, history, and philosophy revealing how we learned so much about the universe and its tiniest parts.”  \n—Sheldon Glashow, Nobel laureate in physics  \n“Discovering the bedrock nature of physical reality ranks as one of humanity’s greatest collective achievements. This book gives a fine account of the main ideas and how they emerged. Krauss is himself close to the field and can offer insights into the personalities who have led the key advances. A practiced and skilled writer, he succeeds in making the physics ‘as simple as possible but no simpler.’I don’t know a better book on this subject.”  \n—Martin Rees, author of Just Six Numbers  \n“It is an exhilarating experience to be led through this fascinating story, from Galileo to the Standard Model and the Higgs boson and beyond, with lucid detail and insight, illuminating vividly not only  \nthe achievements themselves but also the joy of creative thought and discovery, enriched with vignettes of the remarkable individuals who paved the way. It amply demonstrates that the discovery that ‘nature really follows the simple and elegant rules intuited by the twentiethand twenty-first-century versions of Plato’s philosophers’ is one of the most astonishing achievements of the human intellect.”  \n—Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (emeritus), MIT  \n“Charming . . . Krauss has written an account with sweep and verve that shows the full development of our ideas about the makeup of the world around us. . . . A great romp.”  \n—Walter Gilbert, Nobel laureate in chemistry  \n“I loved the fight scenes and the sex scenes were excellent.”  \n—Eric Idle  \n͡  \nCONTENTS  \nPrologue  \nPart One: Genesis  \nChapter 1: From the Armoire to the Cave  \nChapter 2: Seeing in the Dark  \nChapter 3: Through a Glass, Lightly  \nChapter 4: There, and Back Again  \nChapter 5: A Stitch in Time  \nChapter 6: The Shadows of Reality  \nChapter 7: A Universe Stranger than Fiction  \nChapter 8: A Wrinkle in Time  \nChapter 9: Decay and Rubble  \nChapter 10: From Here to Infinity: Shedding Light on the Sun  \nPart Two: Exodus  \nChapter 11: Desperate Times and Desperate Measures  \nChapter 12: March of the Titans  \nChapter 13: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Symmetry Strikes Back  \nChapter 14: Cold, Stark Reality: Breaking Bad or Beautiful?  \nChapter 15: Living inside a Superconductor  \nChapter 16: The Bearable Heaviness of Being: Symmetry Broken, Physics Fixed  \n͢  \nPart Three: Revelation  \nChapter 17: The Wrong Place at the Right Time  \nChapter 18: The Fog Lifts  \nChapter 19: Free at Last  \nChapter 20: Spanking the Vacuum  \nChapter 21: Gothic Cathedrals of the Twenty-First Century  \nChapter 22: More Questions than Answers  \nChapter 23: From a Beer Party to the End of Time Epilogue: Cosmic Humility  \nAcknowledgments  \nAbout the Author  \nIndex  \nͣ  \nFor Nancy  \nͤ  \nThese are the tears of things, and the stuff of our mortality cuts us to the heart.  \n—VIRGIL  \nͥ  \nPROLOGUE  \nThe hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.  \n—J. 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