*An instant New York Times Bestseller*

*Publishers Regular #1 Most Anticipated Research Book of Spring 2016*

‘You will be enthralled.’ – Wall Street Journal

‘A tour de pressure.’ – Salon.com

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing for the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the very best humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his amazing intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and further dimensions but now also in about The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, as well as the Universe Itself our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our feelings, our values, and our expectations and dreams eventually meaningless out there in the void? Will individual purpose and meaning match a medical worldview?

In a nutshell chapters filled up with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between the way the world works in the quantum level, the cosmic level, as well as the individual level–and then how each connects towards the other. Carroll’s presentation from the principles which have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the roots of life, awareness, as well as the universe is certainly dazzlingly unique.

Carroll displays how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed the world and what really issues to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and period, but they are redeemed by our capacity to grasp it and present it meaning.

The Big Picture can be an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force which will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for a long time to come.

*Includes an added bonus PDF with charts and images.