This book explains reality through the examination of five ambitious questions: Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? And what is our future? Through the use of interesting stories and simply explained complex scientific principles, Brian Cox provides answers to these questions. The book is certainly a relative of Carl Sagan's Cosmos (and, like Cosmos, it is based on a TV series by the same name). Like Cosmos, this book examines the history of the universe in an inviting and entertaining way. In summary, this is an inspirational and fun book to read. Brian Cox is one of my favorite science personalities and his books reflect his warm, engaging personality. However, this is not his best effort. This book though very good does not live to the standards of some of his previous outstanding books like Wonders of the Universe. That aside, this is an excellent complementary piece to the documentary series of the same name and is worth your time. I recommend it. 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. One of the central themes of this book has been to argue that the human race is worth saving because we are a rare and infinitely beautiful natural phenomenon. One of the other themes is that we are commonly and paradoxically ingenious and stupid in equal measure. I do not personally think that there is anyone out there to save us, and so it follows that we will have to save ourselves; at least, that would seem to me to be a good working assumption. This is why I don’t feel naïve, idealistic or like a particularly radical member of the Student Union in a Che Guevara T-Shirt when I ask the question ‘Is it reasonable to spend less on asteroid defence than on a footballer’s annual salary?’ When I look in the mirror and think about that, my face assumes an interesting shape – you should try it.

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Keep this exact formula in mind as the authors explain in the Overview of their book (called “The Dawn of a Human Universe”) their (rather simplified) reasoning for using Einstein’s STR equation:

The book is far too technical and very repetitive. If you aren't familiar with modern quantum theory, philosophical camps of the origin of the universe and mind, you will be lost at times. If like myself you have advanced classwork in these things, the discussion will range from overly technical to arduous. Heisenberg, long ago, described the phenomenon (“the act of looking to affect physical matter” and how “the observer cannot be separated from the observed”) in this way: “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning” (p 111).

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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.” This is a long read with few "oh yeah" moments and many "well I guess we know how he feels about that" moments. A conscious universe responds to how we think and feel. It gains its shape, color, sound, and texture from us. Therefore, we feel the best name for it is the human universe, and it is the real universe, the only one we have” (pgs 3-4). Deepak Chopra, MD serves as the Founder and Chairman of The Chopra Foundation, and Co-Founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. This book asks questions about our origins, our destiny, and our place in the universe. We have no right to expect answers; we have no right to even ask. But ask and wonder we do.To Ethiopia then, to meet some primates who weren’t sent to space, and will almost certainly never get there. Geladas, distant ancestors of ours, once one of Africa’s most successful primates, now found in one remote place above the Rift Valley. They live in big groups, and have a range of vocalisations. But it’s hardly space travel is it? Or even language. Duh, dumb-ass geladas. Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He considers the possibility of alien life – could it exist and will humans ever find it? 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***." - Quran The beauty of science at work, evidence for the Big Bang Theory. “It is sufficient to say that the discovery that the universe is still glowing at a temperature of 2.7 degrees above absolute zero was the final evidence that convinced even the most sceptical scientists that the Big Bang theory was the most compelling model for the evolution of the universe.”

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Regardless if the authors, Deepak and Menas, can prove their hypothesis (i.e., that we really do live and participate in a conscious and human universe) mathematically and under extreme scientific scrutiny, the authors do make it easy to understand the evidence and their reasoning. I've got a confession to make: I'm having a love affair. The name of the one that's stolen my intellectual heart - science, and in particular, physics. And I've primarily got one man to thank for that. Professor Brian Cox. That's a big claim. For two authors trained in science, their conclusions are far from scientific. But they are upfront about that from the beginning. Science, they point out, has found many answers to questions about our world. But on the big, important, metaphysical questions, science is coming up short because of the very methods that have served us so well over the past four centuries. Since science is based on observation and thus far answers to these questions are unobservable, maybe it is time to move on, they suggest, to other ways of viewing reality itself. 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...

I've always thought to describe it thus: if only paper existed, and it was divided in ten pieces; would there not exist ten pieces of paper? Yet, still only a total of one sheet! Q: Сэр Джон Экклз, знаменитый австралийский нейрофизиолог, нобелевский лауреат, заявил: «Я хочу, чтобы вы поняли: в природе нет ни цвета, ни звука, ни чего-то подобного. Нет никаких текстур, узоров, запахов, нет никакой красоты». Экклз подразумевает, что все так называемые природные явления – и запах розы, и боль от укуса осы, и вкус меда – созданы людьми, их восприятием. Это примечательное утверждение, и его нельзя сбрасывать со счетов. Звезда, удаленная на миллионы световых лет, без вас нереальна, потому что только человек, только его нервная система может воспринимать все, что делает звезду реальной: тепло, свет, массу, положение в космосе, невероятную скорость в пространстве. Если некому ощутить эти тепло, свет и массу, то не будет и реальности в том виде, в каком мы ее знаем. As I read, I realized that our authors have managed to rediscover what may be the very essence of life. Most beautifully, it is written as to be comprehended by most and without causing any offense to those who have rigid belief systems. Still, this is not the bulk of the book. 95% and certainly the sections on the first four questions contain some of the best science writing currently available. It is highly recommended for that reason. 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.