About this title: A masterful, accessible simplification of a theory that explains the genesis of the universe in just six numbers.. How did a single genesis event create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemblehere on earth, and perhaps on other worldsinto living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? What fundamental laws govern our universe?This book describes new discoveries and offers remarkable insights into these fundamental questions. There are deep connections between stars and atoms, between the cosmos and the microworld. Just six numbers, imprinted in ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780297842972ISBN:0297842978
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780297842972ISBN:0297842978
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2001-05-02
ISBN-13:9780465036738ISBN:0465036732
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780465036738ISBN:0465036732
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780753810224ISBN:0753810220
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 176 pages. (176 pages) the astronomer royal shows how the behaviour and origins of the universe can be explained by just six numbers 8 line drawing(s) (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1999-12
ISBN-13:9780465036721ISBN:0465036724
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date Published: 14/10/1999
ISBN-13:9780297842972ISBN:0297842978
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date Published: 14/10/1999
ISBN-13:9780297842972ISBN:0297842978
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Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 05/10/2000
ISBN-13:9780753810224ISBN:0753810220
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"The idea was good, we live in an unbelievably fine tuned universe, but the writing was scattered and poorly organized. Some people can write in a clear and concise way, and some can't. Reese can't. Guidance from a good editor could have made this book outstanding. I probably should have given in 1 or 2 stars because of the disorganized writing, but there are some great ideas scattered throughout the book."
"This book blew me away... I hadn't been paying attention, and had missed a scientific revolution that had happened right under my nose! To cut to the chase: either someone created the Universe expressly to make it suitable for living beings, or there are lots of universes, and we just happen to be in one of the rare ones that support life. Right now, there don't seem to be many other serious alternatives.
If you have trouble believing this, get Rees's excellent book. It will change the way you think about things.
I was just looking at Trevor's review, and thought I would update my own. Here are a couple more thoughts. First, much as I hate saying it, the creationists have a stronger position now than they've had for the last 300 years. There's something really odd about the way the physical constants are so finely tuned. Some of them need to be correct to multiple decimal places. Of course, when I say "creationists", I don't mean people who claim the world was made 10,000 years ago. I mean the faction who agree that most of science is correct, but want some Creator to have started the whole thing off.
I don't see that it's a real counter-argument that God wouldn't have anything to do for the next 13 billion years. Maybe time passes very differently for Him. Maybe He isn't really at all interested in what we're up to, and is only omnipotent and omniscient in a narrow technical sense. Suppose, as an extreme example, that our whole universe was a simulation that some student had set up as a term project in the university's quantum computer. We see 13 billion years, but from His point of view He is running us over the weekend. He's an ordinary 19 year old, He's only doing it to pass Cosmology 101, and He even copied the critical parameter settings from a friend as some students do. I don't actually see why it's inconsistent with the observed data! There could be a short story in this.
I'm sorry if religious people find the above horribly blasphemous. All I'm saying is: one explanation of the facts is that the universe was created, but we can deduce nothing at all from that about the nature of the Creator."
"Every once in a while, I feel like reading something more challenging than my preferred diet of fiction. The subtitle of this book is "The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe," and the author is a Royal Society Research Fellow at Cambridge University. So, it took concentration, with much highlighting and re-reading of portions of it, to get a vague grasp of the sense of it. But still, I really do think I came away with at least a small idea of the relationship between the macro universe and the micro universe of atoms, and the various forces that underlie it all. Fascinating stuff."
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