Guido Tonelli – författare

Sedan tidernas begynnelse har människan förundrats av frågan om hur allting började. Men vetenskapen erbjuder en mycket mer fantasifull och kraftfull berättelse om världens skapelse än någon mytologi.Det är utgångspunkten när Guido Tonelli, prisbelönt fysiker och en av forskarna bakom upptäckten av Higgsbosonen, tar oss med på en livlig resa genom universums historia. Vi får en inblick i de senaste upptäckterna inom fysiken, men också i de otroliga utmaningar vetenskapen möter när den utforskar de första ögonblicken i kosmos.Genesis. Den stora berättelsen om alltings ursprung är en humanistisk skildring som tar hjälp av grekisk mytologi och indiska gudasagor för att förklara universums grundvalar, och samtidigt påminner om det mirakulösa i vår existens.Med förord av Jonas Enander. Översättning: Björn Olofsson. Den vetenskapliga förmågan att bestämma universums egenskaper med stor noggrannhet är endast ett par decennier gammal. De nya kosmologiska insikterna har ännu inte sipprat ut i samhällets breda lager. Vi har inte hunnit skapa en gemensam berättelse om vårt ursprung och vår plats i universum. Jag hoppas därför att Tonellis Genesis får många läsare. - Ur förordetSinnesutvidgande  Wired En storslagen vision om de underverk vi har upptäckt, och omfattningen av det som vi fortfarande inte förstår  Sunday Times

A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life—drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos.Curiosity and wonderment about the origins of the universe are at the heart of our experience of the world. From Hesiod’s Chaos, described in his poem about the origins of the Greek gods, Theogony, to today’s mind-bending theories of the multiverse, humans have been consumed by the relentless pursuit of an answer to one awe inspiring question: What exactly happened during those first moments?Guido Tonelli, the acclaimed, award-winning particle physicist and a central figure in the discovery of the Higgs boson (the “God particle”), reveals the extraordinary story of our genesis—from the origins of the universe, to the emergence of life on Earth, to the birth of human language with its power to describe the world. Evoking the seven days of biblical creation, Tonelli takes us on a brisk, lively tour through the evolution of our cosmos and considers the incredible challenges scientists face in exploring its mysteries. Genesis both explains the fundamental physics of our universe and marvels at the profound wonder of our existence.

What are we made up of? What holds material bodies together? Is there a difference between terrestrial matter and celestial matter – the matter that makes up the Earth and the matter that makes up the Sun and other stars? When Democritus stated, between the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, that we are made up of atoms, few people believed him. Not until Galileo and Newton in the seventeenth century did people take the idea seriously, and it was another four hundred years before we could reconstruct the elementary components of matter.

Everything around us – the matter that forms rocks and planets, flowers and stars, even us – has very particular properties. These properties, which seem quite normal to us, are in fact very special, because the universe, whose evolution began almost fourteen billion years ago, is today a very cold environment. In this book, Guido Tonelli explains how elementary particles, which make up matter, combine into bizarre shapes to form correlated quantum states, primordial soups of quarks and gluons, or massive neutron stars. New questions that have emerged from the most recent research are answered: in what sense is the vacuum a material state? Why can space-time also vibrate and oscillate? Can elementary grains of space and time exist? What forms does matter assume inside large black holes?

In clear and lively prose, Tonelli takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the latest discoveries of contemporary science, enabling them to see the universe, and themselves, in a new light.Also available as an audiobook

What is time? Does it exist? Can it be stopped? Can time''s arrow be reversed? Can we ever free ourselves from the seemingly inexorable flow of time? Chronos is a mystery, and not only for us: it was a mystery for our distant ancestors too.In this book, Guido Tonelli guides us along the path to understanding a reality that is very different from what we believe it to be. Modern science allows us to explore the deepest recesses of the universe, and when we observe the giant objects which inhabit the cosmos over great distances – galaxies and clusters of galaxies – time acquires characteristics which are quite different from those that we are used to. The same happens when we analyse the phenomena which occur on a sub-nuclear scale. In these two worlds which are so far apart from one other, the harmonious and constant flow of time which has enchanted us for millennia twists, melts and shatters. Space and time appear as an indissoluble couple – not some abstract concept but a material substance which occupies the entire universe, which vibrates, oscillates and is in a constant process of change.With Tonelli''s erudite assistance, we discover the long history of time, its violent birth and strange evolution. In our imaginations, we travel to terrifying places where time stops and explore the close link which binds time to energy. This is a bewildering journey that forces us to discard our preconceptions and abandon all certainty, a journey in which myth, art and philosophy will come to our aid when our minds begin to falter.