Author: Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
Translator: Dae-ho Jeon
Publisher: Kkachi
Hardcover | 252 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT
THINKERS -- A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE ULTIMATE
QUESTIONS OF LIFE
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there
something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are
the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of
beings like ourselves? And, finally, is the apparent "grand design" of
our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion
-- or does science offer another explanation?
The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and of
life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory
where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meet -- if only to
disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the
universe, in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and
simplicity.
In The Grand Design they explain that according to quantum theory, the
cosmos does not have just a single existence or history, but rather that
every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. When
applied to the universe as a whole, this idea calls into question the
very notion of cause and effect. But the "top-down" approach to
cosmology that Hawking and
Mlodinow describe would say that the fact that the past takes no
definite form means that we create history by observing it, rather than
that history creates us. The authors further explain that we ourselves
are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe, and
show how quantum theory predicts the "multiverse" -- the idea that ours
is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of
nothing, each with different laws of nature.
Along the way Hawking and Mlodinow question the conventional concept of
reality, posing a "model-dependent" theory of reality as the best we can
hope to find. And they conclude with a riveting assessment of M-theory,
an explanation of the laws governing us and our universe that is
currently the only viable candidate for a complete "theory of
everything." If confirmed, they write, it will be the unified theory
that Einstein was looking for, and the ultimate triumph of human reason.
A succinct, startling, and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries
that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most
cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will inform --
and provoke -- like no other.
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