


Visit megaphone.Also available on eBook for £6.99. To advertise with us, contact more about your ad choices. Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos: He has written 10 popular books, including the international best-sellers, The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing. Krauss has held endowed professorships and distinguished research appointments at institutions including Harvard University, Yale University, University of Chicago, Boston University, University of Zurich, University of California at Santa Barbara, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Case Western Reserve University, Australian National University, Arizona State University, and New College of Humanities.

Krauss previously served as Director of Arizona State University's Origins Project, and Foundation Professor for a decade from 2008-2018, and also as Chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from 2006-2018.

Among his numerous important scientific contributions was the proposal, in 1995, that most of the energy of the Universe resided in empty space. He reveals his motivations for writing this latest book, and his deep concerns for the current state of academic freedom.Īs an accomplished scientist with over 500 publications, Lawrence Krauss has focused on the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, including the origin and evolution of the Universe and the fundamental structure of matter. Krauss has much to say about the risks of AI, astrobiology, the pursuit of a theory of everything, and where science can take us. Professor Krauss reminds us tha not knowing implies a universe of opportunities with the possibility of discovery and surprise. The book challenges readers to explore the limits of what we know, and possibly what is even knowable! Can science ever explain the mysteries of time, space, matter, the origin of life, and the nature of consciousness? Lawrence addresses these challenges head on while also celebrating how far we have come in understanding the universe. In this episode Professor Krauss discusses his 10th and most recent book: The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast. Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and acclaimed lecturer.
