HUMAN UNIVERSE

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Plunkett, John (27 November 2013). "Brian Cox set for new BBC2 series". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 November 2013. 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. The facts themselves aren’t ground breaking but the way they are presented is a total different story. From Big Bang to quantum physics, from Lucy to Paul Young, from Giordano Bruno to Hubble, this book is an ode to science and humanity.

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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. Chopra’s medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Dr. Chopra serves as Co-Founder and Chairman of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty at Walt Disney Imagineering, and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization. Was ich besonders gut an dem Buch finde, ist es wie beide Autoren Quantenphysik erklären. Es wird mit einfachen Beispielen aus dem Alltag die komplexen Zusammenhänge veranschaulicht. Human Universe is a British television series broadcast on BBC Two, presented by Professor Brian Cox. [2] An accompanying book was also published.Professor Brian Cox takes readers out of this world and into a whole new dimension as he gives us a new perspective on human life. Following the spark of human curiosity from its ignition in the distant past to its journey into the future, the book spans the history of the universe, as Brian attempts to understand the greatest wonder of them all - humankind The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for books. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. 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. From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ’ ALAIN DE BOTTON

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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). 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.” 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. Accelerating then, through our ancestors, with bigger and bigger brains – increases that coincided with periods when the Earth’s orbit was at its most elliptical and the climate most volatile. Ah, you see it’s impossible to separate us from the cosmos, we’re all tied up together and it all comes down to physics in the end. He does manage to find a very big number, too, in his own head, and yours: 80bn neurons in our brains. All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced.

To sum up, everything comes from nothing, or a place that can be known but not yet perceived. Complicated? Not really. What is complex is the attempt to explain through acute scientific measures how things exist (to atoms, to human thoughts, to the Universe) and how humanity is connected and interlinked to the Universe, which is Time and Space all around us all the time. In the final episode of the series, Professor Brian Cox explores the future of our home planet, its unfolding relationship with the rest of the universe, and its effect on our destiny as a species. We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness? Unquestionably, they are in doubt about the meeting with their Lord. Unquestionably He is, of all things, encompassing. It explains fine tuning as a result of the eternal inflaction that leads to a infinite inmortal universo growing fractal like withut end,there is not fine tuning problema,given the infinite multiverse,we are inevitable. In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows h ow four tools have enabled humans to control the destiny of our species.

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Deepak Chopra, MD serves as the Founder and Chairman of The Chopra Foundation, and Co-Founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. Lovely film, BTW. I read one of his books too, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character and it was amazing - can't recommend it enough)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). 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. A brief explanation on how the laws of nature allow for human beings to exist. “The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that explains the interactions between subatomic particles in the form of the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces.” “General Relativity and the Standard Model are the rules of the game. They contain all our knowledge of the way that nature behaves at the most fundamental level.” Human beings are the “carriers of the central jewel, the flashing purpose that lights up the whole dark universe” (p 151).