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Loading... The never-ending days of being dead : dispatches from the frontline of science (original 2007; edition 2007)by Marcus Chown
Work InformationThe Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science by Marcus Chown (2007)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Simple and lively, though not authoritative, writings about the eternal-inflation multiverse, Wolfram's would-be science revolution, the cyclic/ekpyrotic universe, quantum decoherence, the flow-of-time puzzle, Chaitin's Omega number, symmetry and physical law, origin(s) of mass, SETI alternatives, and Tipler's (wacko!) immortality theory. Very much a product of the popular science genre, Marcus Chown gushes, with an overload of exclamation marks, about some of the more head spinning theories from physics and cosmology. I really enjoyed these quick snap-shots from the wilder fringes of science and in the process getting my mind well and truly boggled! We have an infinity of bubble universes arising from the big-bang, where somewhere our exact double must exist! We have the idea that our universe was created by a collision with another universe! Another scientist theorises that the secrets of space and time could be contained in a single number! The book ends with the most outrageously grandiose speculation of them all-Frank Tipler’s Omega Point, where each and every one of us is resurrected in a computer simulation at the end of time! Those of you who look to the supernatural or religion to provide a sense of wonder should read this book. Here they will find material science providing an enormously more powerful fix of astonishment and surprise. no reviews | add a review
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A wonderful and diverting look at the big questions of life and the Universe. No library descriptions found. |
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