num_pages: 708
description: Gods war crimes Aristotles sneaky tricks Einsteins pajamas information theorys blind spot Stephen Wolframs new kind of science and six monkeys at six typewriters getting it wrong. What do these have to do with the birth of a universe and with your need for meaning? Everything as youre about to see.How does the cosmos do something it has long been thought only gods could achieve? How does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms and unbelievable new powers without a creator? How does the cosmos create?Thats the central question of this book which finds clues in strange places. Why A does not equal A. Why one plus one does not equal two. How the Greeks used kickballs to reinvent the universe. And the reason that Polish-born Benot Mandelbrotthe father of fractal geometryrebelled against his uncle.Youll take a scientific expedition into the secret heart of a cosmos youve never seen. Not just any cosmos. An electrifyingly inventive cosmos. An obsessive-compulsive cosmos. A driven ambitious cosmos. A cosmos of colossal shocks. A cosmos of screaming stunning surprise. A cosmos that breaks five of sciences most sacred laws. Yes five. And youll be rewarded with author Howard Blooms provocative new theory of the beginning middle and end of the universethe Bloom toroidal model also known as the big bagel theorywhich explains two of the biggest mysteries in dark energy and why if antimatter and matter are created in equal amounts there is so little antimatter in this universe.Called truly awesome by Nobel Prizewinner Dudley Herschbach The God Problem will pull you in with the irresistible attraction of a black hole and spit you out again enlightened with the force of a big bang. Be prepared to have your mind blown.
language: English
title: The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates
publisher: Prometheus Books