So we’re up and running, ahead of those geladas. Fishing, agriculture, civilisation, building, Petra, peppercorns (very expensive), writing, literature, science, engineering … space travel! And to Kazakhstan, where the latest three humans to leave our world, for a six-month stint in orbit, are coming home, and Brian’s there to welcome them. 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. The impact of the grand theory of General Relativity. “Many physicists regard General Relativity as the most beautiful piece of physics yet devised by the human mind.” Did not finish. I have enjoyed some of Chopra’s books in the past, but this book felt like it couldn’t decide whether it was a college physics textbook or new age positive thinking essay. Listening on audio I felt as if I was being forced to listen to a college professor drone on and make strange connections. After a few chapters I ended up giving up, as it was causing serious drowsy driving. If you can’t sleep, listen to this on audio. Your problem will be solved.

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How the “conscious” and “humans" network in this universe. Einstein’s special theory of relativity (STR) equation to help illustrate how our thoughts (i.e., energy and the unseen) and the physical universe (i.e., mass and the seen) are connected and, at times, interchangeable. Then he goes on to explain the Quantum World and Quantum Reality and how the Heisenberg cut can be applicable in explaining the “conscious and human universe” in scientific and mathematical terms. Chopra and Kafatos make an argument that the universe is pure consciousness - that mind creates matter. They make the argument that science has come to an empirical end and cannot explain our origin story using the scientific method, but there were so many leaps and bounds and assumptions that I really cringed to get through the book without arguing with it. Regardless, it is fascinating to read different origin and meaning of life stories from scientists ... and I learned a lot about popular science theories by reading this book. However, I don't know that I really followed a lot of the conclusions "if this, then that — if not this, then definitely that" style of argument presented in the book. I am interested by consciousness and I don't doubt that consciousness is a frontier ... that what we know about it is barely surfacing... but I also don't know that they have really hit the nail on the head with this theory. 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. Basically he does a hop skip and a jump through the history of physics, looking at what people have thought about the universe and what we think nowadays. But he also has a go at Biology and Palaeontology - because he's interested in human beings as well as stars. And he is an enthusiast, for sure - I imagine him standing in the middle of a field and staring up at the stars, going "Oooh!"

Brian Edward Cox, OBE (born 3 March 1968) is a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow, PPARC Advanced Fellow and Professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. He is working on the R&D project of the FP420 experiment in an international collaboration to upgrade the ATLAS and the CMS experiment by installing additional, smaller detectors at a distance of 420 metres from the interaction points of the main experiments. It is not so much that the book was poorly written. Instead, it was a failure on the marketing side and how the book was advertised. I have done many of Deepak & Oprah's 21-day Meditations and perused some of his other literature.

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Our existence is a ridiculous affront to common sense...Our civilisation is a combination of seven billion affronts" I'm a big fan of Brian Cox and this book made me love him even more. This wasn't just a purely scientific book, it was a sometimes comical and witty love letter to humanity, with the occasional moment of holding up a mirror to us all and making us reflect on what we're doing to our planet.Cox and Cohen look at five basic questions - where are we? are we alone? who are we? why are we here (not meaning why some man in a beard decided to put us here but what are the conditions that enabled our existence) and, the weakest section, what is our future? One gets the impression that the expansion of the TV format fell apart here because Cox wanted to lobby for investment in the asteroid impact space programme. This is where the bulk of the irritating posturing noted in the first paragraph appears.

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Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9304 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000508 Openlibrary_edition A man in a space suit floats above the International Space Station. Clooney? On honeymooney? With ’er indoors waiting inside … ’fraid not. Don’t worry though – it’s the world’s second sexiest man, Prof Brian Cox. Have they really sent him up there, to the firmament? How much did that cost? No wonder they’re closing down BBC3 … Oh, a diver swims past, making bubbles, it’s not space at all, this is an underwater space station, in a big swimming pool, at a cosmonaut training centre outside Moscow. Knox, David (2 January 2015). "Airdate: Human Universe with Brian Cox". TV Tonight . Retrieved 2 January 2015. 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. This is another sumptuous book from Professor Cox in conjunction with the BBC tv series of the same name. The book is full or amazing photographs and articles showing the amazing challenges and how we have excelled over them through the ages - from evolutionary imperatives to pushing the boundaries of our planet. Professor Cox is a very human face to what could be a very dry and antiseptic subject. My only possibly criticism is that the this time round they have chosen such a wide subject with so many possible avenues of study that you wonder who really chose the subject matter and what other details did they leave out (as compared to their other subject matters from previous projects - such as Wonders of the Solar System to Wonders of life).This book is based on its namesake BBC documentary, Human Universe. If you did not see it yet, you should – totally worth it; the others in the series too. Brian Cox does an amazing job presenting it – his enthusiasm and joy are written all over his face and you can hear it also in his voice. Part of that excitement is present here, in the book, too.