A Tear at the Edge of Creation
Subtitle: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, UK; Toronto, Canda; Sydney, Australia
Format: ebook
ISBN-13: 9781439127865
Table of contents: label: Introduction; label: PART I
title: ONENESS; label: 1
title: Burst!; label: 2
title: Fear of Darkness; label: 3
title: Transition; label: 4
title: Belief; label: 5
title: Oneness: Beginnings; label: 6
title: The Pythagorean Myth; label: 7
title: Living the Platonic Dream; label: 8
title: God, the sun; label: 9
title: To Hold the Key to the Cosmos in Your Mind…; label: 10
title: Kepler's Mistake; label: PART II
title: THE ASYMMETRY OF TIME; label: 11
title: The Big Bang Confirmed; label: 12
title: The World in a Grain of Sand; label: 13
title: Light Acts in Mysterious Ways; label: 14
title: The Imperfection of Electromagnetism; label: 15
title: The Birth of Atoms; label: 16
title: From Creation Myths to the Quantum: A Brief History; label: 17
title: Leap of Faith; label: 18
title: The Jitterbug Cosmos; label: 19
title: The Universe That We See; label: 20
title: The Faltering Big Bang Model; label: 21
title: Back to the Beginning; label: 22
title: Exotic Primordial Matter; label: 23
title: A Small Patch of Weirdness; label: 24
title: Darkness Falls; label: 25
title: Darkness Rules; label: PART III
title: THE ASYMMETRY OF MATTER; label: 26
title: Symmetry and Beauty; label: 27
title: A More Intimate Look at Symmetry; label: 28
title: Energy Flows, Matter Dances; label: 29
title: Violation of a Beautiful Symmetry; label: 30
title: The Material World; label: 31
title: Science of the Gaps; label: 32
title: Symmetries and Asymmetries of Matter; label: 33
title: The Origin of Matter in the Universe; label: 34
title: A Universe in Transition; label: 35
title: Unification: A Critique; label: PART IV
title: THE ASYMMETRY OF LIFE; label: 36
title: Life!; label: 37
title: The spark of Life; label: 38
title: Life from No Life: First Steps; label: 39
title: First Life: The “When” Question; label: 40
title: First Life: The “Where” Question; label: 41
title: First Life: The “How” Question; label: 42
title: First Life: The Building Blocks; label: 43
title: The Man Who Killed the Life Force; label: 44
title: L'Univers Est Dissymétrique!; label: 45
title: The Chirality of Life; label: 46
title: From So Asymmetric a Beginning…; label: 47
title: We Are All Mutants; label: PART V
title: THE ASYMMETRY OF EXISTENCE; label: 48
title: Fear of Darkness II; label: 49
title: Is the Universe Conscious?; label: 50
title: Meaning and Awe; label: 51
title: Beyond Symmetry and Unification; label: 52
title: Marilyn Monroe's Mole and the Fallacy of a Cosmos “Just Right” for Life; label: 53
title: Rare Earth, Rare Life?; label: 54
title: Us and Them; label: 55
title: Cosmic Loneliness; label: 56
title: A New Directive for Humanity; label: Epilogue
title: Garden of Delights; label: Notes; label: Bibliography; label: Acknowledgments; label: Index