Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth . . . and Beyond is both the story of life and the history of the cosmos, but not as you have ever read before.Bestselling science writer Lawrence Krauss takes as his narrative the twisted and improbable tale of a single atom of oxygen, a history that starts at the dawn of time, and journey's beyond the death of stars and people to the death of all matter itself.Like the original Homeric epic, the atom at the centre of his book travels a dangerous and extraordinary path: exploding supernovas, solar winds, and collapsing stars preceded the rise of life on earth and one day may fortell its end. Yet the story that Krauss tells is inextricably our story, the lives of this lowly storm-tossed atom, our lives. Throughout this astonishing and monumental work, he manages to stoke our wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our eco-system and us.
