Until the End of Time

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In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws.
On this cosmic timeline, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die. And, we know, so too will the universe itself.
"Until the End of Time" is Brian Greene'
s breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to understand it. Greene takes us on a journey across time, from our most refined understanding of the universe'
s beginning, to the closest science can take us to the very end. He explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos, and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in story, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and our longing for the timeless, or eternal. Through a series of nested stories that explain distinct but interwoven layers of reality from the quantum mechanics to consciousness to black holes-Greene provides us with a clearer sense of how we came to be, a finer picture of where we are now, and a firmer understanding of where we are headed.
Yet all this understanding, which arose with the emergence of life, will dissolve with it'
s conclusion. Which leaves us with one realization: during our brief moment in the sun, we are tasked with the charge of finding our own meaning. Let us embark.

Содержание Until the End of Time

Preface
1. The Lure of Eternity
Beginnings, Endings, and Beyond
2. The Language of Time
Past, Future, and Change
3. Origins and Entropy
From Creation to Structure
4. Information and Vitality
From Structure to Life
5. Particles and Consciousness
From Life to Mind
6. Language and Story
From Mind to Imagination
7. Brains and Belief
From Imagination to the Sacred
8. Instinct and Creativity
From the Sacred to the Sublime
9. Duration and Impermanence
From the Sublime to the Final Thought
10. The Twilight of Time
Quanta, Probability, and Eternity
11. The Nobility of Being
Mind, Matter, and Meaning
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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