The book begins with a preface that contains a mental health warning due to the content challenging personal beliefs of readers, with Hossenfelder describing herself as an "agnostic heathen". The chapters are interspersed with four interviews with scientists in various physics fields, who offer their own perspective and "stereotypes of eccentricity" to the subject matter. These questions are split into individual chapters and interviews with various scientists are included throughout the book.Įach chapter of the book tackles a different scientific or "ascientific" topic, moving between philosophical scientific subjects including predictability, the meaning of life, and the existence of free will to those Hossenfelder considers impossible to be answered by science, such as the existence of god, the multiverse, and the "belief that subatomic particles are conscious". It focuses on discussing various existential and ethical questions related to scientific topics and explaining their connection to current scientific research or debunking their relevance or possibility to ever be explained by science in the first place. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions is a nonfiction popular science book by theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder that was published by Viking Press on August 9, 2022.
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