HUMAN UNIVERSE

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You are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why it Matters (2017) by Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos is a non-fiction book attempting to reconcile the spiritual and the metaphysical with the scientific. Great examples where science clashed with religion, handled with the utmost respect and care. “Catholic dogma asserted that the Moon and the other heavenly bodies were perfect, unblemished spheres. Previous astronomers who had viewed the Moon, either with the naked eye or through telescopes, had drawn a two-dimensional blotchy surface, but Galileo saw the patterns of light and dark differently. His training in chiaroscuro revealed to him an alien lunar landscape of mountain ranges and craters.” urn:lcp:humanuniverse0000coxb_t0f6:epub:3cd25471-012c-4c0f-be00-c71f905d8d97 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier humanuniverse0000coxb_t0f6 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2629wpq0qh Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780008125080

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Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring,’ wrote Sagan. This was an amazing read. Brian Cox has a way of mingling mind-bending physics with his own brand of down-to-earth humor which results in a really entertaining read. I'm not a scientists by any stretch of the imagination, but the topics discussed in this book, from the moments before the Big Bang to 'Why are we here?' are explained and discussed in such a way, that anyone can follow the theories and enjoy discovering new science. The Universe, however, needs humanity to help create the all-surrounding universe. Our thoughts, therefore, have power over Reality. We are what we think and feel; the world, also, is what we think and feel. In fact, the authors explain “the universe is made of what we want it to show us” (p 111) and the brain acts as a kind of “transmitter” to help deliver messages between us and the Universe (p 159). Human Universe is a British television series broadcast on BBC Two, presented by Professor Brian Cox. [2] An accompanying book was also published.Nor should you be put off by the mathematical formulae. They are there for the clever ones with that sort of mind. The authors do not patronise us with noddy-and-big-ears versions of science but they do not try to take for granted the meaning of the formulae either. To sum up, everything comes from nothing, or a place that can be known but not yet perceived. Complicated? Not really. What is complex is the attempt to explain through acute scientific measures how things exist (to atoms, to human thoughts, to the Universe) and how humanity is connected and interlinked to the Universe, which is Time and Space all around us all the time. This book based on a BBC programme is one of the best popular science books I have read,it gives a very readable unified cosmic vission of almost all,the universo,its origens,the fundamental laws of nature,the emergence of life,the emergence of inteligence,the fine tuning,if we are alone etc... Instead of making a summary of the book, I’ll better leave you some fragments from it. If these do not convince you to read it, I don’t know what will. The facts themselves aren’t ground breaking but the way they are presented is a total different story. From Big Bang to quantum physics, from Lucy to Paul Young, from Giordano Bruno to Hubble, this book is an ode to science and humanity.

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Human beings are the “carriers of the central jewel, the flashing purpose that lights up the whole dark universe” (p 151). Our existence is a ridiculous affront to common sense...Our civilisation is a combination of seven billion affronts" Even the 'Big Bang' (last refuge of the theistic scoundrel) is not merely under assault. Cosmology now makes it a blip amongst uncountable infinite blips. The conditions for life or not come into existence in a complex multiverse in which all things are possible.It's a really uplifting and engaging read, peppered with some punchy moments, such as why we pay footballers more money in a year, than it would cost to observe for known asteroids that WILL at some point hit the earth. Priorities people!? Cox reasons that we exist in an infinite number of galaxies in an infinite number of universes, which makes us both incredibly special as a species but also extremely rare. He marvels at the wonder of man, of what we can achieve. Chopra’s medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Dr. Chopra serves as Co-Founder and Chairman of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty at Walt Disney Imagineering, and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization. So how did it happen, that the geladas were left sulking in a corner of Africa, while we went on to colonise the world, and beyond? It’s a story and a journey that continues in Ethiopia, where, more than 250,000 years ago, early humans first made tools that might look simple now, but required collaborative working and the passing on of information and language, in the same way as the International Space Station does … In the words of Georges Lemaître, ‘Standing on a well-cooled cinder we see the slow fading of the suns and we try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds.’ Our cinder is not special; it is insignificant in size; one world amongst billions in one galaxy amongst trillions. But it has been a tremendous ascent into insignificance because, by the virtuous combination of observation and thought, we have been able to discover our place. How Giordano Bruno would have loved what we found.

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Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of wealth and children - like the example of a rain whose [resulting] plant growth pleases the tillers; then it dries and you see it turned yellow; then it becomes [scattered] debris. And in the Hereafter is severe punishment and forgiveness from Allah and approval. And what is the worldly life except the enjoyment of ***delusion***." - QuranThis highly probabilistic approach based on rational questioning of available hard evidence and using mathematics as a predictive tool is now giving us a vastly speeded up re-evaluation of our place in the universe to those prepared to listen to what is being said. They give brief explanations and then embed the complexity in a narrative that tells us what the science actually means and challenges us to challenge it. But the hidden sub-text of the work is not just scientific but cultural. As you would expect, the book is full of interesting factoids. “The Sun is one star amongst 400 billion in the Milky Way Galaxy, itself just one galaxy amongst 350 billion in the observable universe.”