Summary: Cosmologist Lee Smolin offers a startling new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. In The Life of the Cosmos, Smolin cuts the Gordian knot of cosmology with a simple, powerful idea: "The underlying structure of our world," he writes, "is to be found in the logic of evolution." Today's physicists have overturned Newton's view of the universe, yet they continue to cling to an understanding of reality not unlike Newton's own - as a clock, an intricate mechanism, governed by laws which are mathematical and eternally true. Smolin argues that the laws of nature we observe may be in part the result of a process of natural selection which took place before the big bang. Smolin's ideas are based on recent developments in cosmology, quantum theory, relativity and string theory, yet they offer, at the same tim
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This book is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Forlag: Black Swan Udgivelsesår: 2004 Sider: 686 Sprog: Engelsk
verdensbilledets historie gennem 3000 år Titel: Fra kaos til kosmos : verdensbilledets historie gennem 3000 år Forlag: Samlerens Bogklub Udgivelsesår: 2003 Sider: 399 Sprog: Dansk
Fra KAOS til KOSMOS giver en omfattende og rigt facetteret fremstilling af opfattelser af universets struktur og udvikling fra de ældste kulturer i Babylon og Ægypten til de nyeste udviklinger i teorien om 'big bang'. De historiske udviklingslinjer følges gennem mere end 3000 år, fra oldtidens mytologiske verdensbillede til moderne fysisk kosmologi, fra filosofiske spekulationer til observationer baseret på satellitter og anden højteknologi. Bogen er et bidrag til både videnskabshistorien og astronomiens idéhistorie. Type: Hardcover
A Co-creator's Guide to the Whole-world We stand at the threshold of a revolutionary and empowering new vision of the world. The discoveries of leading-edge science and the insights of spirituality are converging to reveal that the CosMos and all that we term reality is wholly integrated, and that at its most fundamental level, it is a field of information. This is the elemental cosmic mind from which everything emanates, is manifested, and to which all ultimately returns. Research is also demonstrating what the mystics of all traditions have discerned: that we have the innate ability to envision, understand, and experience the CosMos at levels far beyond the limitations of our human persona."CosMos" is co-authored by two explorers who combine almost a century of seeking to understand not only how the world is as it is, but why. Philosopher Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D., and healer and scientist J
Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. In his sparkling new book, Peter Atkins introduces his choice of the ten great ideas of science. With wit, charm, patience, and astonishing insights, he leads the reader through the emergence of the concepts, and then presents them in a strikingly effective manner. At the same time, he works into his engaging narrative an illustration of the scientific method and shows how simple ideas can have enormous consequences.His choice of the ten great ideas are:* Evolution occurs by natural selection, in which the early attempts at explaining the origin of species is followed by an account of the modern approach and some of its unsolved problems.* Inheritance is encoded in DNA, in which the story of the emergence of an understanding of inheritance is followed through to the mapping of the human genome.* Energy is co
As smartphones, supercomputers, supercolliders, and AI propel us into an ever more unfamiliar future, How to Speak Science takes us on a rollicking historical tour of the greatest discoveries and ideas that make todayÕs cuttingÐedge technologies possible. Wanting everyone to be able to ÒspeakÓ science, YouTube science guru Bruce Benamran explainsÐas accessibly and wittily as in his acclaimed videosÐthe fundamental ideas of the physical world: matter, life, the solar system, light, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, special and general relativity, and much more. Along the way, Benamran guides us through the wildest hypotheses and most ingenious ideas of Galileo, Newton, Curie, Einstein, and scienceÕs other greatest minds, reminding us that while they werenÕt always exactly right, they were always curious. How to Speak Science acquaints us not only with what scientists know, but how they th
Carlo Rovelli præsenterer i syv korte kapitler nogle af de mest centrale ideer i moderne fysik. Han introducerer relativitetsteorien, kvantemekanikken og teorien om elementarpartikler på en måde, der er rettet mod et bredt publikum uden forudsætninger. Bogen beskriver både det allermindste – kvantefænomener og partikler – og det største – kosmos, rumtid og universets udvikling fra big bang. Undervejs diskuterer Rovelli, hvordan disse teorier ændrer vores forståelse af tid, rum og virkelighed, og han slutter med en refleksion over menneskets rolle og betydning i et univers styret af fysiske love. Type: Paperback Populærvidenskabelig bog af Carlo Rovelli, hvor læseren gennem syv korte forelæsninger får en introduktion til moderne fysik. Bogen tager udgangspunkt i alt fra kvantemekanik og elementarpartikler til kosmologi, universets struktur og big bang. Rovelli, der er professor i teoretis
