Beware Invisible Cows

My Search for the Soul of the Universe

AvAndy Martin

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Engelska, 2011

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What really happened at the moment of the Big Bang? And how the hell do we know? And why is finding out so important? And who are these people who design and build these experiments? And is it all worth it? Andy Martin sets out on a road trip to search for the soul of the universe. In his personal quest for the mother of all truths, he has to go all the way back to the origin of time and space. He climbs up to the highest observatory in the world and sticks his head inside a 4 km-long laser tube capable of surfing waves from the Big Bang. He sees himself the way he used to be in a mirror and he discovers where you go when you die. He has close encounters with aliens and intimations of immortality. This book has everything -- science, philosophy, literature, religion, Einstein, Weinstein, God, the Godfather, all seen through a glass darkly.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-06-09
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781849835855
Förlag:Simon & Schuster Ltd

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Andy Martin is the author of Stealing the Wave, Napoleon the Novelist and Waiting for Bardot. He is married, is a roadie for his two sons, and teaches at Cambridge University. In various parallel worlds, he is a surfer, a Hollywood scriptwriter, and a great poet.

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'Martin has written a fun book, though you might need to lie down in a darkened room afterwards' BBC Focus Magazine July issue 'Part cosmology, part memoir, this book is a strange cross-breed. Writer and surfer Andy Martin visits the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the LIGO gravitational wave observatory in Washington, and Mount Wilson in California in his quest to understand the origin of the universe. His writing ranges from tiresomely hyperbolic to transcendent, with funny and touching moments in between, but his genuine wonder at the universe and our place in it continually shines through. Although Martin doesn't always get scientific details right, his philosophising is contagious, and he beautifully captures all that is narcissistic and endearingly human, both in his own journey and in the efforts of cosmologists; he describes them as wranglers of invisible cows, ever dreaming of "transcending the human condition. For one man's wacky and profound take on the nature of reality, surf's up' New Scientist 07/06 'A head-trip as well as hugely entertaining...a fantastic intellectual voyage, a real eye-opener. He's as clear-sighted with his philosophical arguments as he is very funny in his self-effacement. He may aim high but he is endearingly humble' Independent 10/07 'An oddball mystical journey' Daily Telegraph 18/06