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The Grand Design (Hardcover, New)
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THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT
THINKERS--A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE
ULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFE
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there
something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why
are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the
existence of beings like ourselves? And, finally, is the apparent
"grand design" of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who
set things in motion--or does science offer another explanation?
The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe
and of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the
territory where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meet--if
only to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard
Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the
mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by both
brilliance and simplicity.
In The Grand Design they explain that according to quantum theory,
the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history, but
rather that every possible history of the universe exists
simultaneously. When applied to the universe as a whole, this idea
calls into question the very notion of cause and effect. But the
"top-down" approach to cosmology that Hawking and
Mlodinow describe would say that the fact that the past takes no
definite form means that we create history by observing it, rather
than that history creates us. The authors further explain that we
ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early
universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the
"multiverse"--the idea that ours is just one of many universes that
appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of
nature.
Along the way Hawking and Mlodinow question the conventional
concept of reality, posing a "model-dependent" theory of reality as
the best we can hope to find. And they conclude with a riveting
assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing us and
our universe that is currently the only viable candidate for a
complete "theory of everything." If confirmed, they write, it will
be the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, and the
ultimate triumph of human reason.
A succinct, startling, and lavishly illustrated guide to
discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening
some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a
book that will inform--and provoke--like no other.
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