Human Universe - Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen
Brian Cox, Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen
Category: Science
Tags: Science, Misc. Non-fiction
Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from., What is a human being? Objectively, nothing of consequence. Particles of dust in an infinite arena, present for an instant in eternity. Clumps of atoms in a universe with more galaxies than people. And yet a human being is necessary for the question itself to exist, and the presence of a question in the universe any question is the most wonderful thing., Questions require minds, and minds bring meaning. What is meaning? I dont know, except that the universe and every pointless speck inside it means something to me. I am astonished by the existence of a single atom, and find my civilisation to be an outrageous imprint on reality. I dont understand it. Nobody does, but it makes me smile. This book asks questions about our origins, our de
