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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
B Greene |
ISBN: | 9780241295984 024129598X |
OCLC Number: | 1129694677 |
Description: | xiii, 428 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The lure of eternity : beginnings, endings, and beyond -- The language of time : past, future, and change -- Origins and entropy : from creation to structure -- Information and vitality : from structure to life -- Particles and consciousness : from life to mind -- Language and story : from mind to imagination -- Brains and belief : from imagination to the sacred -- Instinct and creativity : from the sacred to the sublime -- Duration and impermanence : from the sublime to the final thought -- The twilight of time : quanta, probability, and eternity -- The nobility of being : mind, matter, and meaning. |
Responsibility: | Brian Greene. |
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A cracking read...Greene serves up plenty of revelatory detail... If you want to know how everything got here and where it's going, read this book. -- Stephen Bleach * Sunday Times * Until the End of Time is encyclopaedic in its ambition and its erudition, often heartbreaking, stuffed with too many profundities that I wanted to quote, as well as anecdotes from Greene's own life - of which we should wish for more - that had me laughing ... A love letter to the ephemeral cosmic moment when everything is possible. -- Dennis Overbye * New York Times * It takes a storyteller to explain the sciences, and few are as gifted as Brian Greene. There's real wonder in his descriptions of galaxies and planets forming, and of life blooming after that. It is all part of a fleeting moment in the cosmos - one that will eventually end - yet Greene finds meaning and optimism in everything around us. -- Chris Schluep, Amazon Editor A writer of exceptional clarity and charm -- Oliver Sacks He is both a skilled and kindly explicator. His excitement for science on the threshold of vital breakthroughs is extremely contagious * The New York Times * The new Hawking only better * The Times * Few living writers write so lucidly ... Greene might be the best intermediary I've found between the sparkling, absolute zero world of mathematics and the warm, clumsy world of human language * Boston Globe * If extraterrestrials landed tomorrow and demanded to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing, we could do worse than to hand them a copy of this book * The New York Times (on The Hidden Reality) * Read more...

