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Bezig met laden... The never-ending days of being dead : dispatches from the frontline of science (origineel 2007; editie 2007)door Marcus Chown
Informatie over het werkThe Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science door Marcus Chown (2007)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 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. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Ursan julkaisuja (112)
A wonderful and diverting look at the big questions of life and the Universe. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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