Time One Discover How the Universe Began (Audible Audio Edition) Colin Gillespie Derek Perkins Audible Studios Books
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Time One tackles mankind's most baffling question How did the world begin? After challenging old thinking about forty-seven crucial scientific problems, Time One author Colin Gillespie solves forty-five of them and comes up with a strikingly simple answer to the most perplexing question of them all How did the world begin?
Time One takes an iconoclastic look at contemporary physics, notably relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory. It connects the dots across centuries of philosophy, literature and religion. Yet despite its formidable scope and breadth, it remains accessible and even lighthearted. It's the ultimate mystery, and it takes a fictional detective to solve it. The protagonist--a beach bum--takes his cues not only from the likes of Aristotle, Newton and Einstein but also from Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Frank Herbert--and even Mariah Carey--among many others. And the most helpful if least likely source is the imaginary detective who becomes his sidekick. One of the book's central (and most entertaining) premises is the detective's use of science's great stumbling blocks as clues to what happened before the Big Bang.
Time One Discover How the Universe Began (Audible Audio Edition) Colin Gillespie Derek Perkins Audible Studios Books
The only reason I read this was because it was chosen by a member of our book group. At least I only wasted money on the Kindle! I found this book very irritating for many reasons. First the subject matter, specifically reconciling physics as we understand it today with the big bang, is a fascinating subject. Read "Origins" by Tyson and Goldsmith which is excellent. Second, the physics itself is fascinating, for instance try Feynman. Gillespie decides to view the subject from the standpoint of a detective and his extraordinarily dull girlfriend in the process eschewing any pictures or illustrations. Their banal conversation persists for 600 pages with occasional comments on physics. Only one other person in the group actually read the book all the way through and he was not the one who chose it! If you are interested in this subject, the first fraction of second of creation, or quantum physics or detective stories, there are many really good books illustrating the awe you might experience in viewing the universe and the mysteries of quantum physics.Product details
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Time One Discover How the Universe Began (Audible Audio Edition) Colin Gillespie Derek Perkins Audible Studios Books Reviews
This is the book that is keeping me up at night and making me more crazy. I think this is an interesting and novel approach to science for anyone wanting to read it. Fun story and I bought the version because I typically read the topic and this was a fair price so I got it and started reading... it really is a fun way to discuss the topic as it's like a novel in approach but with science along for the ride. I think the author does a decent job on the topic but it takes staying in the "read" to move along.. lot of interaction with his co-characters that bring the "novel" into focus but in many chapters, the science comes screaming into position to again make me crazy as I try to understand QM concepts.
Love the approach - very clever use of human interaction and a stealth way to teach very difficult science.
I loved this book. I don't know if it was the many and varied intriguing quotes from others (physicists, writer, comedians, etc.), or the clever use of a fictional private detective, or just the remarkable and understandable way the author presented some very difficult technical concepts. I enjoyed this book without reservation. Anyone interested in how the universe was created, how it progressed and where it is going should give this book a try. And mixed in with all of this are interesting tidbits on the personal lives and changing thoughts of some of the greatest scientists the world has ever known. What can I say, I loved the book for all the reasons one should love a book.
It took me, by my standards, a long time to read this book. A LONG time. A Looooooong time.
This, however is because the author has set himself just about the most daunting of all possible tasks, that of accounting for the ultimate generation of the entire universe. Written like a detective story, which is by turns both amusing and infuriating, this book travels the full tour of modern cosmological thinking, and attempts to answer the most incredibly difficult questions imaginable without drowning one in math. This alone makes it an achievement worth reading.There is in addition a vast quantity of quotes for notable researchers and others just notable, the likes of which make for a fine study in themselves. This book takes work to get through, I'll not deny, but if you're the kind that loves to study such impossible questions as the Beginning of EVerything, this is a plunge you should take.
This book is a daunting exposition of physics from the time of Issac Newton to the present. But it mainly focuses on Quantum Physics and Relativity, with many side trips into many of the different aspects of modern physics, and to a lesser extent mathematics. Though Philosophy and fiction play parts in this book as well, physics is the central attraction. While deep understanding of Quantum mechanics, Einstein's theories of Relativity, Gravity, Astrophysics, String Theory, Black Holes, and other aspects of modern physics are not essential, At least some understanding and interest in them are useful for following along and not being put off by the flow of the book.
Time One explores many areas of modern physics from the point of view of a Hacker who is hired to find a new theory of the Universe's beginning point. Initially the hacker is supposed to do research for a supposed Private Investigator (PI). But this PI turns out to be not really interested and is really working for the hacker's lady boss to do other tasks. The hacker's work is really a front for a scam run by the lady boss.
The hacker takes the job seriously because it's the kind of work that he really loves. After it becomes apparent that The PI hired by the woman is not really interested in finding the Universe's beginning, the hacker is not sure how to find a new model for the universe. He mentions more then once fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes, and thinks that he also needs a fictional PI. Then part way into the book the hacker starts hearing the voice of a fictional PI. Together with the hacker, the fictional PI create a new model of the beginning of the universe.
My own opinion of this model of the universe is that it may well be reasonable. But I'm not really qualified to understand this new model, so I withhold judgement, though I think it makes a kind of sense from what little I do understand.
I am a bit disappointed in the treatment of the fictional detective. The hacker's assumption that the voice he hears is from his own mind feels wrong to me. The disembodied voice of the PI comes from a deeper place, an unconscious part of the universe that speaks to the hacker. It knows so much that the hacker does not and is using the hacker to put forth it's own views of physics and it's new version of reality. I'm tempted to use words such as spirit and soul, but they would not be helpful. Better to let this disembodied entity remain a mystery.
Finally, I would like to say that I had to read this book slowly since so much material was presented as if this were a physics text book. Indeed I stopped after reading the first two parts and re read from the beginning to get a better grasp on the material. I've long been fascinated with physics but I needed slow and careful reading to catch the ideas being presented. As I say at the beginning, this book is not for the beginner in physics. Indeed it requires an interest in physics as well as a sense of interest in seeing physics reshaped into an interesting new form.
I've finished the book, but still am processing the material. I was hoping to find more viewpoints about the book here in the reviews, but finding only two, I am adding my two cents as well.
The only reason I read this was because it was chosen by a member of our book group. At least I only wasted money on the ! I found this book very irritating for many reasons. First the subject matter, specifically reconciling physics as we understand it today with the big bang, is a fascinating subject. Read "Origins" by Tyson and Goldsmith which is excellent. Second, the physics itself is fascinating, for instance try Feynman. Gillespie decides to view the subject from the standpoint of a detective and his extraordinarily dull girlfriend in the process eschewing any pictures or illustrations. Their banal conversation persists for 600 pages with occasional comments on physics. Only one other person in the group actually read the book all the way through and he was not the one who chose it! If you are interested in this subject, the first fraction of second of creation, or quantum physics or detective stories, there are many really good books illustrating the awe you might experience in viewing the universe and the mysteries of quantum physics.
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