Bob Berman – författare

Nya upptäckter inom kvantmekanik och biologi tvingar oss att ifrågasätta den rådande uppfattningen om vårt universums ursprung och struktur. Partiklar beter sig inte som förväntat, utan verkar anpassa sig till en medveten betraktare. Och medvetandet framstår som ett större mysterium än någonsin, trots en utförlig kartläggning av hjärnan. Biocentrismen erbjuder en förklaringsmodell som placerar liv och medvetande i centrum av universums existens, hellre än att se dem som slumpmässiga företeelser. Enligt denna teori finns ingen fysisk verklighet alls utanför den medvetna betraktaren. Genom djupgående motiveringar och logiska argument erbjuder Robert Lanza svar på några av den moderna vetenskapens största mysterier, såsom universums uppkomst, observatörens betydelse, medvetandets natur och funktion, och varför fysikens lagar tillsynes är perfekt anpassade för att främja liv. Slutligen berör han den stora frågan: vad är döden? ”Våra aktuella teorier om den fysiska världen fungerar inte, och kan aldrig fås att fungera, förrän de tar hänsyn till livet och medvetandet.” – ROBERT LANZA Dr Robert Lanza har utforskat naturvetenskapen i över fyrtio år, och han anses som en av världens främsta forskare. Han är för närvarande vetenskaplig chef vid Advanced Cell Technology och biträdande professor vid Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Lanza har tillsammans med Bob Berman, den mest lästa astronomen i världen, tagit fram biocentrismen – en revolutionerande ny bild av universum. Robert Lanza har utsetts av TIME till ”en av världens hundra mest inflytelserika personer” och av FORTUNE till ”en av världens femtio främsta tänkare". ”Ett helt nytt perspektiv på ett gammalt existentiellt problem.” – E. DONNALL THOMAS, Nobelpristagare i medicin “Robert Lanza fann mentorer i vetenskapliga giganter som psykologen B F Skinner, immunologen Jonas Salk och Christiaan Barnard, pionjär inom hjärttransplantation. Hans mentorer beskriver honom som ett geni och en stor tänkare, och några av dem har till och med jämfört honom med självaste Einstein.” – Ur US NEWS & WORLD REPORT

”Vi är medvetna, och vi befinner oss i en situation som vi kallar universum.” – Robert Lanza I Robert Lanzas första bok Biocentrism presenterades biocentrismens svar på några av vetenskapens största frågor: – hur uppstod universum? – varför är fysikens lagar perfekt anpassade för att främja liv? – hur kommer det sig att partiklar påverkas av att någon observerar dem? – vad är medvetande? – vad händer när vi dör? I Ett levande universum går Robert Lanza ännu djupare in i dessa frågor och presenterar dem på ett pedagogiskt sätt med förtydligande illustrationer. Boken kan läsas som ett komplement till den första boken, eller fristående. Enligt biocentrismen existerar ingen verklighet utanför den medvetna observatören – tid och rum är endast sinnets verktyg för livsupplevelse. Det är alltså livet självt som genom medvetande skapar universum – inte tvärt om. I den här boken får vi följa med på en omvälvande resa genom forskning och filosofi där vi möter nya tankar som vänder upp ner på våra föreställningar om tid, rum, medvetande, liv och död. Dr Robert Lanza har utforskat naturvetenskapen i över fyrtio år, och han anses som en av världens främsta forskare. Han är för närvarande vetenskaplig chef vid Advanced Cell Technology och biträdande professor vid Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Lanza har tillsammans med Bob Berman, den mest lästa astronomen i världen, tagit fram biocentrismen – en revolutionerande ny bild av universum. Ur boken: "Det finns ingenting ’där ute’, bortom den verklighet som sinnet skapar. Eller, om det gjorde det, skulle det vara ytterligt mystiskt och oupplevt, och absolut inte den värld av bilar och träd som vi ser. Allt vi vet, och kan veta, finns i vårt eget sinne och den information som hjärnan bearbetar. Om detta känns omöjligt att acceptera, kom då ihåg att om det fanns något förstadium till färgerna, ljuset och 3D-djupet i den värld vi ser, så skulle det bara vara tomma, magnetiska och elektriska fält, eftersom det är vad ljus i själva verket är.”

Have you ever wondered what happened before the Big Bang, or how we would colonize Mars, or what an alien invasion might really be like? Astronomer Bob Berman has, and in Cosmic Adventure, a collection of twenty-six profound to outrageous essays, he takes readers on a mind-bending tour of the universe, including our own planet Earth.From the most extraordinary cosmic phenomena to the basics of the natural world, Berman challenges us to look at the facts, discoveries, concepts, and awesome wonders of our cosmos in a new light. Written in entertaining, jargon-free language that even a novice stargazer will understand, Cosmic Adventure is a fun-filled, thought-provoking exploration of the secrets beyond the night sky.Bob Berman takes you on a stellar journey in this collection of essays that display a lively mix of science, astounding facts, personal anecdotes, and sheer playfulness. Complex, mind-stretching scientific topics become understandable in human terms as Berman links astronomy to our lives. He explores strange new mysteries raised by recent discoveries, and covers areas that haven''t been discussed anywhere else before. From the "night terrors" that have haunted humankind since time immemorial to the penniless eccentric who sleeps inside the revolutionary telescope he designed, Berman''s scope ranges far and wide.Cosmic Adventure explains aspects of the physical world that have often piqued our curiosity. Who gets to name the stars? What would an alien invasion really be like? What''s the inside story behind space program disasters? Why was the early Hubble goof avoidable? What''s the only original idea in recent science? Why does time probably not exist at all?

Did you know that scientists are beginning to think that the sun is safer than sunscreen? That whenever we see the sun on the horizon, it's actually a phantom image because the sun has already set? That career pilots have a one percent higher incidence of cancer because of their time in the sky? Or that the sun's unusual dormancy is causing our climate to be cooler than it otherwise would be? Peppered with memorable anecdotes about spectral curiosities, THE SUN'S HEARTBEAT is a robust narrative that explores the sun's birth, its life as a self-sustaining ultra-H-Bomb fusion explosion, and its spectacular future death. Astronomer Bob Berman's expert observations tell a dramatic story about the familiar star that crosses our sky daily.

Sitting still in a quiet room, you might just be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents swirl about you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you are on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the speed of sound.In Zoom, Bob Berman takes a thrilling tour around the wondrous and myriad motions that shape every aspect of the universe. Spanning astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology and history, he explains how clouds stay aloft, how the earth’s rotation curves a ball’s flight, how a mosquito’s familiar whine is tuned to a perfect A sharp, how the day gets longer every century, and much more.

Sitting still in a quiet room, you might just be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents swirl about you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you are on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the speed of sound.In Zoom, Bob Berman takes a thrilling tour around the wondrous and myriad motions that shape every aspect of the universe. Spanning astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology and history, he explains how clouds stay aloft, how the earth’s rotation curves a ball’s flight, how a mosquito’s familiar whine is tuned to a perfect A sharp, how the day gets longer every century, and much more.

The universe is literally made of light One hundred years after they were written, Marie Curie’s notebooks are still too radioactive to handle In 1974 we sent a message to star cluster M13. If any aliens respond promptly, we’ll hear from them in 52000 From world-altering discoveries of the past to the wonderful science of the present, Bob Berman zooms across the universe to tell the story of invisible light. He reveals what microwaves from smartphones do to our brains, how birds use ultraviolet light to track prey, why gamma rays are the most powerful form of light, and so much more. Replete with amazing characters and mindboggling quantum leaps, Zapped offers a teasing peek into the future and some of the startling technologies we might yet live to see.

Looking at the night sky, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all quiet up there in space. But you’d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the giant Andromeda galaxy.Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Berman presents a destructive history of our universe.

Looking at the night sky, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all quiet up there in space. But you’d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the giant Andromeda galaxy. Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Berman presents a destructive history of our universe.

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world — a US News & World Report cover story called him a “genius" and a “renegade thinker," even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe.Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western, natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, increasingly being forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory, and at the same time, towards doubt and uncertainty in the physical explanations of the universe's genesis and structure. Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around. In this paradigm, life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocetnrism takes the reader on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe—our own—from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. Biocentrism will shatter the reader's ideas of life--time and space, and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal. The 21st century is predicted to be the Century of Biology, a shift from the previous century dominated by physics. It seems fitting, then, to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and unifying the foundations of science with a simple idea discovered by one of the leading life-scientists of our age. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility, and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way again.

Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality. But that was just the beginning. In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in 2014," and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill-ride as they re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself.The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent scientific discoveries. Science tells us with some precision that the universe is 26.8 percent dark matter, 68.3 percent dark energy, and only 4.9 percent ordinary matter, but must confess that it doesn't really know what dark matter is and knows even less about dark energy. Science is increasingly pointing toward an infinite universe but has no ability to explain what that really means. Concepts such as time, space, and even causality are increasingly being demonstrated as meaningless.All of science is based on information passing through our consciousness but science hasn't the foggiest idea what consciousness is, and it can't explain the linkage between subatomic states and observation by conscious observers. Science describes life as a random occurrence in a dead universe but has no real understanding of how life began or why the universe appears to be exquisitely designed for the emergence of life.The biocentrism theory isn't a rejection of science. Quite the opposite. Biocentrism challenges us to fully accept the implications of the latest scientific findings in fields ranging from plant biology and cosmology to quantum entanglement and consciousness.By listening to what the science is telling us, it becomes increasingly clear that life and consciousness are fundamental to any true understanding of the universe. This forces a fundamental rethinking of everything we thought we knew about life, death, and our place in the universe.

Los autores nos invitan a una apasionante aventura intelectual en la que se cuestionará todo lo que creemos saber sobre la vida, la muerte, el universo y la propia realidad. El primer paso consiste en reconocer que nuestro actual modelo de realidad no encaja con lo que nos muestran ciertos descubrimientos científicos recientes. A modo de ejemplo, aunque la ciencia y el modelo científico pueden calcular con bastante precisión la proporción de materia y energía oscura del universo, se ven incapaces de explicar el verdadero significado de estas. Conceptos tan básicos como el tiempo, el universo infinito, el espacio e, incluso, la causalidad cada vez resultan más faltos de significado.La teoría del biocentrismo no rechaza a la ciencia. Todo lo contrario. La teoría del biocentrismo nos reta a plantearnos cuáles son las implicaciones de algunos de los últimos descubrimientos científicos en campos que van desde la biología vegetal y la cosmología hasta el entrelazamiento cuántico. Al tener en cuenta esos hallazgos, observamos que la vida y la conciencia son elementos esenciales para lograr un verdadero entendimiento del universo. Esta comprensión, irremediablemente, nos lleva a replantearnos todo lo que creíamos saber sobre la vida, la muerte y nuestro lugar en el universo.