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From eternity to here
592 pages
A mind-bending journey from the scrambled eggs on your breakfast plate to the very origins of the universe.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like sitting down for coffee with a brilliant, endlessly patient physicist who is determined to blow your mind. The pace is steady and deliberate, guiding you through the thorny thickets of entropy and quantum mechanics with a conversational, enthusiastic tone. It cultivates a mood of profound, mind-expanding wonder, taking the mundane reality of a ticking clock and stretching it across the multiverse. The prose is remarkably clear, relying on elegant analogies rather than dense equations to illuminate the deepest mysteries of cosmology. It is a deeply satisfying read for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky or watched a glass shatter and wondered about the invisible, irreversible arrow of time.
- Mood
- mind-expanding
- contemplative
- wonder-filled
- Tone
- accessible
- enthusiastic
- intellectual
- conversational
- awe-inspiring
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- the nature of time · cosmic origins · entropy and disorder · limits of human perception · the multiverse
- The writing
- Clear, engaging, and conversational, translating complex mathematical concepts into vivid analogies.
- The arc
- Begins with everyday curiosities and expands outward into a dizzying, awe-inspiring appreciation of the cosmos.
- Who it's for
- Curious minds who want to understand the fundamental rules of reality without needing a PhD in physics.
Content notes
- existential themes
About the book
A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions before the Big Bang itself-a period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child's play. Carroll's scenario is not only elegant, it's laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net.From Eternity to Here uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It's an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like Elegant Universe and A Brief History of Time.
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