The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01ENXQY1S |
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| Number of Pages | : | 116 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning. Wilson for years to come.. Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution - from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe - is dazzlingly unique. Does human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview?Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on the Higgs boson and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will be listened to alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, listeners learn the difference between how
Ashutosh S. Jogalekar said Reality is a many-splendored thing. Sean Carroll is a successful theoretical physicist, skilled ponderer of philosophical questions and gifted communicator of science. He brings all these qualities to bear in his big-hearted, ambitious latest book “The Big Picture.” The book is part sweeping survey of some of the most thought-provoking ideas in modern science, part sweeping rumination on two o. serine said " I opened my Audible library and it was better than Christmas. After having a countdown for this book, which spanned months, I woke up at 5 am on May 10th and thought, "It's finally here!" I opened my Audible library and it was better than Christmas. In the quiet of the morning, I began to listen to this deeply philosophical book and immediately fell in love with it. It felt like a Poetic Naturalist's version of Christmas- material. R. C. Haynes said Reality and the way things really are.. This is a magnificent book written by an erudite physicist, an astute observer and a humane and thoughtful human being. Professor Carroll beautifully summarizes the current state of thinking in physics and cosmology; referencing major philosophical strands, and covering epistemology, ontology, Entropy, evolution, complexity, origin of life, Consciousness, Reason, Morali