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The Big Picture

On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

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The Big Picture

Von: Sean Carroll
Gesprochen von: Sean Carroll
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 *An instant New York Times Bestseller*
*Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016*
"You will be enthralled." — Wall Street Journal
"A tour de force." — Salon.com

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Does human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview?

In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level--and then how each connects to the other. Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique.

Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.

The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.

*Includes a Bonus PDF with charts and images. Wissenschaft

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Sean Carroll masterfully explains physics and his take on some of the greatest philosophical issues about the meaning of life, metaphysics, ethics etc.
Really a brilliant answer to the questions of life, the universe and everything. Even though it's very comprehensive and the material is heavy, the book is very easy to read - or listen to. By the way, the author narrates it and he does a great job.

Lives up to the title

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Insgesamt super um ein grosses Verständnis über die Zusammenhänge von verschiedenen Themen zu haben. Die Core Theorie und mathematische Formel war dann doch etwas über meinem Verständnisniveau. Das macht aber nichts, denn es ist immer gut sich ein wenig über dem eigenen Niveau zu bewegen, um neues zu lernen.

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I've really enjoyed Sean's previous books, a lot, but here I just found myself not listerning. Failed to engage me in the wide ranging topics, feels lacklustre. I don't think I'll finish it and I never don't finish an audible.

Nothing wrong with the content or info given just not written or read in an engaging way. Disappointed

Not engaging did get better at end

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I expected a book about physics and was disappointed when I recognised that this is rather a conflation of a great number of fields with the purpose of communicating the author's personal philosophy. He loves his -isms and seems to feel the need of belonging to a group whose members identify by an -ism (in this case an absurdity he calls "poetical naturalism").
He constantly repeats himself with assertions like "there is no God" or "reality just is and there's nothing more about it" (paraphrased). It doesn't seem to even strike his mind that "God" might be a natural entity that can be described by science if that science is advanced enough. Hence, he sees a strict cut between the natural and the supernatural. He also falls into the same trap that caught many scientists before him and which he even mentions: like Kelvin and Hawking both prophesying the end of physics in their respective times, or jolly Richard Dawkins claiming to have solved the riddle of the origin of life, for that matter. Carroll believes our scientific knowledge is sufficient to give definitive answers to the big questions of humanity - I could hardly disagree more.
It's very obvious that Carroll lacks sufficient knowledge and understanding of pretty much all the fields he philosophises about. The result is, of course, in most parts non-sensical. I could give myriads of further examples from his book but to cut this short just one more: He talks about an experiment where bacteria were evolving in a short span of time under laboratory conditions and then goes like: Hah, here's undeniable proof of undirected Darwinian evolution, hence no God! This is simply dumb. First, the experiment might indeed prove evolution but that it's undirected is nothing more than conjecture. Second, even if Darwinian evolution were indeed a mechanism of the natural world, it's non-sensical to assume that this would disprove the entity called God. Carroll's shortcomings in theology and philosophy become absurdly evident nearly every time he works with examples and analogies.

Tiresome

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