Gods Equation, Amir D. Aczel
Gods Equation, Amir D. Aczel
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God's Equation
Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe

Author: Amir D. Aczel

Narrator: Kent Broadhurst

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/28/2000

Synopsis

Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"?

In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.

In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that the cosmos is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. The way we perceive the universe was changed forever. The most compelling theory cosmologists could find to explain this phenomenon was Einstein's cosmological constant, a theory he conceived--and rejected---over eighty years ago.

Drawing on newly discovered letters of Einstein--many translated here for the first time--years of research, and interviews with prominent mathematicians, cosmologists, physicists, and astronomers, Aczel takes us on a fascinating journey into "the strange geometry of space-time," and into the mind of a genius. Here the unthinkable becomes real: an infinite, ever-expanding, ever-accelerating universe whose only absolute is the speed of light.

Awesome in scope, thrilling in detail, God's Equation is storytelling at its finest.

About The Author

Amir D. Aczel is the author of many research articles on mathematics, two textbooks, and nine nonfiction books, including the international bestseller Fermat's Last Theorem, which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Aczel has appeared on over thirty television programs, including nationwide appearances on CNN, CNBC, and Nightline, and on over a hundred radio programs, including NPR's Weekend Edition and Morning Edition. Aczel is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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Goodreads review by Thomas Ray

God's equation : Einstein, relativity, and the expanding universe Amir D. Aczel, 1999 236 pp. ISBN 1568581378 Library-of-Congress QB981 A35 1999 worldcat: [URL not allowed]-e... [URL not allowed] If the universe was much smaller 10 billion years ago, why didn't......more

Goodreads review by Steven

This book was totally humbling and at the same time inspiring. As neither a mathemetician nor a physicist, it was humbling insomuch as it opened a door (just a small crack) into s discipline in which I have only a glimmer of a background. It was inspirational insomuch as it showed how infinite the c......more

Goodreads review by Gary

The book was originally published in 2000. The only flaw with the book is that I listened to it in 2012. He explains the general theory of relativity so well that you will be able to explain it to others. He explains its relevance to the than recent discovery of the expansion of the universe and dar......more

Goodreads review by Edward

Interesting but makes the reader feeling small because: 1) the subject matter is about the formation and make up of our universe and Man's tiny part of it, and 2) my physics, astronomy, algebra and geometry education is fatally oxidized. I preferred the author's other book on the compass.......more

Quotes

"[Einstein's] field equation remains the closest thing we have to a divine blueprint for the universe....Aczel gives a very readable account of the science and the scientists involved."
-- Kirkus Reviews

"There is something startling on just about every page."
-- San Francisco Chronicle

"It is a wonderful time to glance back over Einstein's path in developing the field equation...fortunately, we have a fabulous guide in Amir D. Aczel."
-- Discover

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