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?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved