Conjuring the Universe
The Origins of the Laws of Nature
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Chris Sorensen
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Peter Atkins
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The marvelous complexity of the universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants come from? And why are the laws so fruitful when written in the language of mathematics?
Peter Atkins considers the minimum effort needed to equip the universe with its laws and its constants. He explores the origin of the conservation of energy, of electromagnetism, of classical and quantum mechanics, and of thermodynamics, showing how all these laws spring from deep symmetries. The revolutionary result is a short but immensely rich weaving together of the fundamental ideas of physics.
With his characteristic wit, erudition, and economy, Atkins sketches out how the laws of nature can spring from very little. Or arguably from nothing at all.
©2018 Peter Atkins (P)2018 Tantor
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- kurtz-detektei-hamburg.de
- 29.11.2024
Dogmatic, confused, pointless
While listening to this work, I felt quite sorry for the author because only a bleak mind can construct such a bleak understanding of the universe. As he admits himself in the very last sentence of the book, he "longs for" the creation of the universe having happened "from nothing at all". As I said: bleak. What good would come from this being true other than him being right?
This last sentence is also a coming-out for Atkins as a dogmatist (as if the rest of the book wasn't clear enough about that already). He even seems to be proud of his dogmatism, somehow believing this to be the mark of the real scientist. The irony is lost on him. In that, and in many other things (for example his unbearable arrogance), he reminds me very much of Richard Dawkins.
So far, I've read a few dozen books on our physical understanding of the universe, and this is easily the worst of them all (not that there were a lot of other bad ones among them, if any).
On top, I also didn't like the narrator. Quirky voice, strong American accent and accentuation.
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