The Universe, John Brockman
The Universe, John Brockman
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The Universe
Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos

Author: John Brockman

Narrator: Antony Ferguson, Danny Campbell, Jo Anna Perrin

Unabridged: 12 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/24/2014


Synopsis

In The Universe, today's most influential science writers explain the science behind our evolving understanding of the universe and everything in it, including the cutting-edge research and discoveries that are shaping our knowledge.

Lee Smolin reveals how math and cosmology are helping us create a theory of the whole universe.

Neil Turok analyzes the fundamental laws of nature, what came before the big bang, and the possibility of a unified theory.

Seth Lloyd investigates the impact of computational revolutions and the informational revolution.

Lawrence Krauss provides fresh insight into gravity, dark matter, and the energy of empty space.

Brian Greene and Walter Isaacson discuss Albert Einstein.

And much more.
Explore the universe with some of today's greatest minds: what it is, how it came into being, and what may happen next.

About John Brockman

The founder and publisher of the influential online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of This Will Make You Smarter, What We Believe but Cannot Prove, What Is Your Dangerous Idea?, and other volumes. He is also the CEO of the literary agency Brockman, Inc. John lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Santiago on December 15, 2015

It's said (several times in this book) that Cosmology is living a golden time. Indeed this collection of texts mentions huge ideas and changes that came out in the last 10 or 5 years. All this progresses do not point in the same direction though. On the contrary, there are many different theories an......more

Goodreads review by Mohamed on October 24, 2016

Written by several leading scientists. - Alan Guth and Andrei Linde explain the Inflationary Universe theory. - Lee Smolin discusses the nature of time. - Lisa Randall and Neil Turok elaborate on the theory of branes, two-dimensional structures arising from string theory—whose existence is central to t......more

Goodreads review by Beauregard on October 17, 2014

Who would have thought a series of essays written by multiple scientific experts could have been as spell tingling as this book was? I know I didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. Part of the reason this book works so well is because none of the essays are that recent. We've learned a l......more

Goodreads review by Troy on November 18, 2015

Color me surprised. I've enjoyed all the Brockman curated Edge Club books up until now. But this one, aside from a few bright spots in some of the essays, was so bad that I literally couldn't wait for it to be over. It's called 'The Universe,' but the focus of the contributors was almost entirely on......more

Goodreads review by Andy on February 02, 2019

There's some very interesting topics here, but are unfortunately very hard to read. A few chapters, for example, seem to be transcriptions of lectures and as such were meant to be spoken and not read. This is an important difference. This is a pity, specially because the topics covered are interestin......more