Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees
Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees
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Just Six Numbers
The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe

Author: Martin Rees

Narrator: John Curless

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/12/2018

Synopsis

How did a single "genesis event" create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble--here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds--into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? What fundamental laws govern our universe? This book describes new discoveries and offers remarkable insights into these fundamental questions. There are deep connections between stars and atoms, between the cosmos and the microworld. Just six numbers, imprinted in the "big bang," determine the essential features of our entire physical world. Moreover, cosmic evolution is astonishingly sensitive to the values of these numbers. If any one of them were "untuned," there could be no stars and no life. This realization offers a radically new perspective on our universe, our place in it, and the nature of physical laws.

About Martin Rees

Martin Rees is Astronomer Royal, former president of the Royal Society, fellow (and former master) of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He sits as a member of the United Kingdom House of Lords.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny

[Original review, November 2008] This book blew me away... I hadn't been paying attention, and had missed a scientific revolution that had happened right under my nose! To cut to the chase: either someone created the Universe expressly to make it suitable for living beings, or there are lots of unive......more

Goodreads review by Riku

Cosmology 101 [Strictly for Cosmology amateurs] Syllabus as follows: - Read Rees' book thoroughly. - Write an essay in appreciation that elucidates the crucial importance of physical constants. - Submit three reports on the current state of understanding and how they have evolved in any of the major c......more

Goodreads review by Maru

After we've had a few drinks my fundamentalist friends will often bring the talk round to The Creation just to have some fun at my expense. They laugh at my belief in a "big bang", make ribald jokes about my "sudden, enormous inflation" and tell me I don't have much energy at all these days let alone......more

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