What are we really, what is around us, where did we come from and why? Questions that have troubled humanity since time immemorial and occupy scientists and spiritual leaders alike. There are thousands of answers, but humanity has yet to agree on any of them. Michal Pospíšil approaches these complex and serious questions in his book with a good dose of perspective, irony, and above all, common sense. His model situation is a Monday morning in November, when you are rushing to work and your head is full of worries about what is called 'Life.' At that moment, does it matter to you whether string theory, multiverse theory, quantum field theory, or some completely different theory is closer to the truth? Probably not at all. Yet even from all those abstract and practically useless constructs, a certain essence can be 'extracted' that can change our everyday world. Of course for the better; otherwise, it wouldn't make sense to write about it, as is done in this book.
