HUMAN UNIVERSE

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Previous astronomers who had viewed the Moon, either with the naked eye or through telescopes, had drawn a two-dimensional blotchy surface, but Galileo saw the patterns of light and dark differently. and certainly the sections on the first four questions contain some of the best science writing currently available.

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Many physicists regard General Relativity as the most beautiful piece of physics yet devised by the human mind. It “created a cultural ratchet, an exponentiation of the known which ultimately led us to the stars”. This book based on a BBC programme is one of the best popular science books I have read,it gives a very readable unified cosmic vission of almost all,the universo,its origens,the fundamental laws of nature,the emergence of life,the emergence of inteligence,the fine tuning,if we are alone etc. It explains fine tuning as a result of the eternal inflaction that leads to a infinite inmortal universo growing fractal like withut end,there is not fine tuning problema,given the infinite multiverse,we are inevitable.Just have a look at something – the smallest, most trivial little thing – and enjoy trying to figure out how it works. He is conveniently forgetting that we were actually beaten to it by primates, albeit unwitting space monkeys, dispatched there by us). With groundbreaking insight it reveals how time, physics and chemistry came together to create a creature that can wonder at its own existence, blessed with an unquenchable thirst to discover not just where it came from, but how it can think, where it is going and if it is alone. In a world in which the vast bulk of the population have no inkling of what the universe is really like or our place in it and in which a democracy of the ignorant is lauded as the right and proper means of conducting ourselves, what this book contains is dynamite.

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A few of the equations discussed in the final quarter of the book went over my head somewhat, but the rest of the physics, chemistry, and biology discussed was very easy to understand and follow along with, and delivered in a friendly way with a lot of humour.Known as a prolific author of eighty books books with twenty-two New York Times best sellers in both fiction and non-fiction, his works have been published in more than forty-three languages. It makes you like a child again looking forward to read each page and to look each picture without wanting to miss any detail; and when you finish this pleasant trip through the history.

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That aside, this is an excellent complementary piece to the documentary series of the same name and is worth your time. His training in chiaroscuro revealed to him an alien lunar landscape of mountain ranges and craters. He's also at pains to point out science is not there to answer the big questions and then sells books off the back of purportedly answering them. I found it took us through things but didn't stop in a patronising 'well, they won't understand it anyway' he continued, including explaining theorem and equations, and I found that really refreshing.Geladas, distant ancestors of ours, once one of Africa’s most successful primates, now found in one remote place above the Rift Valley.

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I didn't watch the TV series - love the pictures/scenery but Prof Cox I find a bit too 'media friendly' (look, tone of voice, etc etc) so tend not to want to see science bastardised that way. Chopra as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine. Perhaps, reading a chapter and then assimilating and considering was a much better way of treating this book.He does manage to find a very big number, too, in his own head, and yours: 80bn neurons in our brains.