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1041 pages, Hardcover
First published September 10, 2018
“There is essentially nothing. There is nothing. That is the fundamental insight of theoretical physics. The consequent is even more auspicious. It says: Nothingness is unstable.”What follows is a real roller coaster ride on science and philosophy, physics, cosmology, music, biology, paleontology & historical geology, and and and … . Destroy yourselves, folks, she says, because it’s for the best to get rid of humankind. (I should mention she’s quite a misanthrope, but a rather convincing one)
"Nicht zufällig war an meinem Studienort die universitäre Klinik für Psychiatrie gleich neben dem Institut für Theoretische Physik. Eines jener Opfer der Erkenntnis, das der Klinik allerdings wieder entkam, schrieb in fetten Lettern ein Zitat aus Dantes Inferno über unser Institutsportal: »Lasst, die ihr eintretet, alle Hoffnung fahren!«"