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Time One

Discover How the Universe Began

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Time One tackles mankind's most baffling question: How did the world begin? After challenging old thinking about forty-seven crucial scientific problems, Time One author Colin Gillespie solves forty-five of them and comes up with a strikingly simple answer to the most perplexing question of them all: How did the world begin?

Time One takes an iconoclastic look at contemporary physics, notably relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory. It connects the dots across centuries of philosophy, literature and religion. Yet despite its formidable scope and breadth, it remains accessible and even lighthearted. It's the ultimate mystery, and it takes a fictional detective to solve it. The protagonist--a beach bum--takes his cues not only from the likes of Aristotle, Newton and Einstein but also from Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Frank Herbert--and even Mariah Carey--among many others. And the most helpful if least likely source is the imaginary detective who becomes his sidekick. One of the book's central (and most entertaining) premises is the detective's use of science's great stumbling blocks as clues to what happened before the Big Bang.

©2013 Colin Gillespie (P)2013 Audible Inc. History & Philosophy Philosophy Physics Science Cosmology Mathematics Black Hole Detective
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Bit put off at the beginning because of how different it is to other books on the topic. In the end I couldn't stop listening. Great book and well worth a read!

Excellent book

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Too long. The author was searching for a way forward. Not believing the floored logic

too long

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I have been listening to various scientific and philosophical books recently. And also the occasional classic novel. This combines all three in an unique way that is both informative and entertaining. One of the best audio plus catalogue offers yet. Thanks

Deep and meaningful

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What the hell is this? No way am I listening to 22 hours of this.

Huh?

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interesting ideas. The huge amounts of quotes at the start of each chapter put me off so I did not complete the book. Shame.

Too many qotes

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