Until the End of Time
Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
简介
From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity’s search for purpose.Until the End of Time is Brian Greene’s breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to understand it. The universe is astoundingly vast both in time and in space, and yet it appears to be governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws. Guided by these laws, Greene takes us on a journey from our most refined understanding of the universe's beginning to the closest science can take us to the very end. He explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos, and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in narrative, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and our longing for the timeless. And, as Greene describes, it is within these pursuits that we experience profound wonder and create great beauty, even as the universe and all it contains is destined for decay.
Through a series of nested stories that explain distinct but interwoven layers of reality-from particles to planets, consciousness to creativity, matter to meaning—Greene traces the interplay along the cosmic timeline between entropy and evolution, providing us with a clearer sense of how we came to be, a finer picture of where we are now, and firmer grasp of where we are headed. With this grand tour of the universe, beginning to end, Brian Greene allows us all to understand and appreicate our fleeing but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos.
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