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Does human goal and meaning fit into a medical worldview? Already internationally acclaimed for his chic, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the ideal humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to endure not only on the Higgs boson and further dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our feelings, our values, and our expectations and dreams eventually meaningless out there in the void? In short chapters filled with interesting historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, listeners learn the difference between the way the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human being level - and then how each attaches to the other. Carroll's display of the guidelines that have led the scientific trend - from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the world - is dazzlingly unique. Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed the world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, however they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning. The Big Picture is an unprecedented medical worldview, a head to de force that will be listened to alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for a long time to come.
