Cosmological Koans A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality

Anthony Aguirre, Jonathan Todd Ross

eAudio - 2019

Cosmological Koans invites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order. Through more than fifty Koans?pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition?leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from West to East, and through ideas spanning the age, breadth, and depth of the Universe. Using these beguiling Koans (Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe?) and a flair for explaining complex science, Aguirre covers cosmic questions that scientific giants from Aristotle to Galileo to Heisenberg have grappled with, from the meaning of quantum theory and the nature of time to the origin of multiple universes. A play...ful and enlightening book, Cosmological Koans explores the strange hinterland between the deep structure of the physical world and our personal experience of it, giving readers what Einstein himself called "the most beautiful and deepest...

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Published
Recorded Books, Inc.
Language
English
Main Authors
Anthony Aguirre, Jonathan Todd Ross
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File Size362 GB
ISBN9781501945403
Release Date5/21/2019