The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

A foremost pioneer in theoretical physics and string theory urges readers and the scientific community to accept a broader concept of the universe as a gigantic cosmic landscape of virtually unlimited possibilities.

Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. The author of The Cosmic Landscape, he is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of numerous prizes including the science writing prize of the American Institute of Physics for his Scientific American article on black holes.