How did the universe begin and how will it end?What is matter?What is mind, and can it survive death?What are time and space, and how do they relate to ideas about God?Is the order of the universe the result of accident or design?The most profound and age-old questions of existence -- forcenturies the focus of religion and philosophy -- may soon be answeredthrough the extraordinary advances of a field of science known as thenew physics. In this illuminating work, Paul Davies, author of theacclaimedOther WorldsandThe Edge of Infinity,writes that the discoveries of 20th-centuryphysics -- relativity and the quantum theory -- are now pointing theway to a new appreciation of man and his place in the universe. Theycould, in fact, bring within our grasp a unified description of allcreation. Demanding a radical reformulation of the most fundamentalaspects of reality and a way of thinking that is in closer accord withmysticism than materialism, the new physics, says Davies, offers a surerpath to God than religion.Described byThe Washington Postas "impressive,"God and the New Physicsis a fascinating look at the impact ofscience on what were formerly religious issues. Elegantly written, abook for both scholars and lay readers of science, it is, according totheChristian Science Monitor,a "provocative...rewarding intellectual romp."