The Big Picture

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Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions Where are we Who are we Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void Does human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level and then how each connects to the other Carroll s presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique.Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E O Wilson for years to come. Download The Big Picture – kino-fada.fr A cloud in Heaven PLATO, LUCRETIUS, HUME, LAPLACE, DARWIN, THE REV BAYES and sundry others PLATO Meeting to order Manny has asked us to review Sean Carroll s new book I trust you ve all read it LUCRETIUS Say, how come we re writing this for him What s going on, Plato PLATO I owe Manny a little favor Fellow seekers after wisdom, we have eternity ahead of us This won t takethan an aeon or two Who s first LUCRETIUS Okay, I didn t like it much.PLATO Would you care to elaborate, deA cloud in Heaven PLATO, LUCRETIUS, HUME, LAPLACE, DARWIN, THE REV BAYES and sundry others PLATO Meeting to order Manny has asked us to review Sean Carroll s new book I trust you ve all read it LUCRETIUS Say, how come we re writing this for him What s going on, Plato PLATO I owe Manny a little favor Fellow seekers after wisdom, we have eternity ahead of us This won t takethan an aeon or two Who s first LUCRETIUS Okay, I didn t like it much.PLATO Would you care to elaborate, dear Lucretius LUCRETIUS Well, it s a cheap rip off of De Rerum Natura.HUME Modest as ever, I see.LUCRETIUS Look, he s just updating my formula Fear not the Gods, fear not death, there is nothing but atoms and void LAPLACE Quantum fields.LUCRETIUS Whatever He s done a good job on the philosophy, I grant you that But come on guys, he calls it poetic naturalism and where s the poetry in his book LAPLACE Where s the naturalism in yours HUME Touch LUCRETIUS ...I received this on a read to review basis from NetGalley Thank you to the author, Sean Carroll, and the publisher, Dutton, for the opportunity A brief overview of this fascinating non fiction can be written noaptly than in the synopsis itself In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level and then how each conne I received this on a read to review basis from NetGalley Thank you to the author, Sean Carroll, and the publisher, Dutton, for the opportunity A brief overview of this fascinating non fiction can be written noaptly than in the synopsis itself In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level and then how each connects to the other The extensive research and knowledge put into this book is unparalleled to anything I have read before This could very easily have become a dense and stodgy feeling read, but the light, conversational tone led this to become, instead, a fascinating and understandable insight into the physics underlying the universe, the world and ourselves The subject matter is dense and complex but it is approached using comprehensible anecdotes, simple analogies and a breaking down of the sc...This is a wonderful book about the meaning of our universe, and of life Sean Carroll is an active theoretical physicist, and he brings some fresh new ideas to philosophy He coins a new term, Poetic Naturalism It stems from a quote by Muriel Rukeyser, The universe is made of stories, not atoms While naturalism is the idea that only natural laws and forces not supernatural or spiritual operate in the world, poetic naturalism says that the way we find meaning to life does not naturally emerge This is a wo...After having a countdown for this book, which spanned months, I woke up at 5 am on May 10th and thought, It s finally here I opened my Audible library and it was better than Christmas In the quiet of the morning, I began to listen to this deeply philosophical book and immediately fell in love with it It felt like a Poetic Naturalist s version of Christmas material gifts replaced by the gift of trying to understand the nature of our vast universe and the world in which we live Those who ha After having a countdown for this book, which spanned months, I woke up at 5 am on May 10th and thought, It s finally here I opened my Audible library and it was better than Christmas In the quiet of the morning, I began to listen to this deeply philosophical book and immediately fell in love with it It felt like a Poetic Naturalist s version of Christmas material gifts replaced by the gift of trying to understand the nature of our vast universe and the world in which we live Those who have wanted to read Sean Carroll but didn t want to wade through the science will be happy with this book In the spirit of Alexander von Humboldt, Carroll tucks much of the complex science away in an appendix for those who would likedetail But, that doesn t...Physicist Sean Carroll goes well beyond the ordinary bounds of his discipline in this wide ranging exposition He begins with ontology, the fundamental nature of everything, and ends with how humans can derive meaning living in a world that is not transcendent Along the way we get explanations of quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, entropy, Bayes Theorem, abiogenesis, evolution and consciousness Much of the material does not represent new thinking, but one discussion stood out to me.In hi Physicist Sean Carroll goes well beyond the ordinary bounds of his discipline in this wide ranging exposition He begins with ontology, the fundamental nature of everything, and ends with how humans can derive meaning living in a world that is not transcendent Along the way we get explanations of quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, entropy, Bayes Theorem, abiogenesis, evolution and consciousness Much of the material does not represent new thinking, but one discussion stood out to me.In his excellent book, From Eternity to Here, Carroll explored the relationship between entropy and time in detail Carroll shares his expertise in entropy in this volume How does one explain the emergence of complex structures planets, people, etc in a universe going from low to high entropy He points out that these are vehicles ...Por onde come ar Escolhi o Big Picture por ser um dos livros mais vendidos do ano passado E foi bem f cil entender o porqu Este aquele livro gigante sobre ci ncia que posso recomendar para qualquer um.Os cap tulos passam por como entendemos o Universo e o que o tempo, como a ci ncia entende o mundo, o que a f sica qu ntica e o que ela descreve, o surgimento da vida e de complexidade, o surgimento de mentes e da consci ncia, para terminar com uma reflex o sobre a vida um livro muito b Por onde come ar Escolh...Most popular science books either focus in on a specific bit of science, or explore the work of a particular scientist However, every now and then, authors get the urge to go large to take on life, the universe and everything It s what you might call the science writer s midlife crisis and this title typifies the genre.Of itself, this isn t a bad idea, though it can be a struggle to decide how to organise such a vast subject matter, and the big book syndrome frequently rears its ugly hea Most popular science books either focus in on a specific bit of science, or explore the work of a particular scientist However, every now and then, authors get the urge to go large to take on life, the universe and everything It s what you might call the science writer s midlife crisis and this titl...When I started reading The Big Picture I assumed it would be about cosmology Sean Carroll is a cosmologist and physicist at the California Institute of Technology, and his previous books dealt with that subject Carroll s new book is about an even bigger topic everything What Carroll attempts to do is give the big picture of our existence, and he does a fine job He combines science, philosophy, religion, psychology and other subjects, to show why no one explanation works There can be no ge When I started reading The Big Picture I assumed it would be about cosmology Sean Carroll is a cos...Can meaning and purpose be found and explained within a non theistic vs an atheistic related, but different worldview Sean Carroll argues that not only is it possible, but the only reasonable perspective He creates a new paradigm, which he calls poetic naturalism to explain how he joins science, philosophy, and a naturalistic worldview with one that also allows for wonder, mystery, joy, purpose, and meaning in life Poetic naturalism contends that we have different ways of talking about r Can meaning and purpose be found and ...A disappointing book despite its potential, I can t recommend it Carroll s tenet the idea he calls poetic naturalism is appealing to me and would be worthy of a good exploration Unfortunately, Carroll spends most of his time exploring the naturalism side of his philosophy, which amounts to knocking over cardboard opponents The early phases of the book where Carroll is on ...

The Big Picture
  • English
  • 22 January 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 480 pages
  • 0525954821
  • Sean Carroll
  • The Big Picture