A Theory of Nothing by Thomas Barlow

A Theory of Nothing by Thomas Barlow

Duronimus Karlof is a rising star at Harvard. He holds a prestigious professorship, his students idolize him, and he is widely considered one of the most influential scientific minds of his generation. The death of a colleague, however, forces him to reconsider his life's purpose.

Inspired by cutting-edge thinking in the humanities, he begins to question the oppressive nature of reality. Cynically exploiting his position at the university, he assembles a critical mass of experts with the mission to prove that there is some loophole in the scientific conception of the cosmos.

What ensues is bigger than the Manhattan Project, the Space Race, the Human Genome Project, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change combined.

Philosophical and funny, this highly original novel finds the ridiculous in almost every aspect of contemporary intellectual life, and highlights the challenge of independent thinking when politics takes control of science.

Thomas Barlow has been a research fellow at Oxford University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a columnist with the Financial Times in London, and Scientific Advisor to the Minister for Education, Science and Training in the Australian Government. He is widely recognised within the Australian scientific community for his imagination, optimism and vision.

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ISBN 13	9780992415938
ISBN 10	0992415934
Title	A Theory of Nothing
Author	Thomas Barlow
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ivory League Publishing
Year published	2016-11-05
Number of pages	304
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