When the Clock Struck Zero: Science's Ultimate Limits

by John G. Taylor

How did the universe begin? Why is there something rather than nothing? And what about the details of our consciousness and perception of these events? These are the questions that science has struggled to answer during its impossible search for the "theory to end all theories." In When the Clock Struck Zero, Professor John Taylor attempts to tackle the problems of what is certain in humankind's knowledge of the universe and also how far science can go in explaining all of human experience. Taylor conducts a dazzling, descriptive tour through the natural world and the world of living things before considering the nature of the universe as an explicable object. Is there one Theory of Everything or simply an unending series? The journey to science's ultimate limits ends, as it began, with the question that affects the analysis of all our lives: Why is there something rather than nothing?

Genres: Nonfiction

211 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

John Gerald Taylor was a British physicist and author.

Reviews

[Neil Aplin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too much jargon, lost the thread at one point so conclusively that I had to skip forward!

[Abu Ubaidah]

A physics book. Quite challenging to be understood, but it really make me want to learn physics more.

The book discussing about scientists struggle in finding the "Theory of Everything", an ultimate theory that can linking and conclude all the existing physics theory into a single theory, and if possible, a single equation.