Fundamental Unanswered Questions

A fearless inquiry into reality’s hardest questions, written with the calm rigor of a scientist and the moral clarity of a philosopher. In this first person work, Martin Tobias Lithner follows evidence wherever it leads to answer what most books only circle. Why anything exists. What the universe is. Whether we are alone. Whether the cosmos is infinite. Where consciousness comes from. How life began. What happens after death. Whether reality is simulated. What time really is. What purpose can mean. Whether we are truly free. Two years in the making, this book unites physics, biology, neuroscience, mathematics, and disciplined philosophy into a single, readable argument. 

Every chapter clears away common confusions, lays out the load bearing facts, and ends with a plain conclusion in ordinary language. No appeals to mystery. No evasions. Wonder is kept where it belongs, at the frontier of knowledge.