By Michael Rowan-Robinson
ISBN-10: 0198504446
ISBN-13: 9780198504443
How outdated is the universe? What do the atoms in bodies, our very lifestyles, let us know concerning the background of the universe? How heavy is the vacuum? How do galaxies shape? Michael Rowan-Robinson solutions those questions and encapsulates all that glossy astronomy has chanced on in regards to the universe round 9 numbers. His motto is Montaigne's "What do I know?" And the reader emerges with a real consider for what we do rather learn about the universe and likewise what we don't. just one of the 9 numbers is understood with genuine precision, whereas 4 of them aren't identified in any respect. complex principles just like the starting place of the weather, the overall idea of Relativity, quantum conception, and the traditional version of particle physics, rules that represent sleek cosmology, are defined in an easy approach. Speculative principles like inflation, Theories of every thing, strings and superstrings, also are during this ebook, yet they're handled with a fresh skepticism. even though so much of what we all know has been discovered throughout the 20th century, Rowan-Robinson offers an historic viewpoint and honors the achievements of the Greeks, renaissance astronomers, and the age of Newton. He ends the publication with an research of the longer term, predicting that with the appearance of the MAP and PLANCK-Surveyor house missions, the big Hadron Collider, and different deliberate experiments, all 9 numbers could be competently identified via 2015. besides the fact that, he stresses that many questions and mysteries will stay, and the e-book concludes with the concept that the beginning of the massive Bang will stay a secret in 2100 and even perhaps within the yr 3000
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According to this new theory of the world, nature no longer had a life of her own: she was soulless, devoid of all spontaneity, freedom, and creativity. Mother Nature was no more than dead nlatter, moving in unfailing obedience to God-given mathematical laws. This new worldview was first articulated on November 10, 1619, in Germany, at Neuburg on the Danube. There the twenty-three-year-old Rene Descartes had a visionary experience; he "was filled with enthusiasm, and discovered the foundations of a marvellous science.
What is unique in the modern world is not the fact of human power itself nor the sense of the uniqueness of humanity but the vast increase in human power. Mythological, theological, and philosophical justifications for human power over the natural \vorld are not a unique feature of modern civilization or of the Judeo-Christian tradition; they are found everywhere. So are anthropocentric views of man's relationship to nature. Even the heroic imagery of man's conquest of nature, so important in the modern ideology of progress, has ancient precedents.
For the modern materialist, nature or matter is the. source of all things; all life emerges from her, and to her all life returns. She may no longer be venerated, but she has taken on some of the most fundamental properties of the Great Mother. Just as the gods were once thought to be descended from the primal Mother, so in the 20 MOTHER NATURE AND THE DESECRATION OF THE WORLD eyes of the modern materialist are they descended from matter. From the blind material processes of evolution, human minds emerged; and from human minds the gods arose by a process of psychological projection.
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