Download About Time: Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang AudioBook Free
THE TOP Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet really know what will replace it. Our universe's "beginning" is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are going to be considerably shaken again - as changed as they were with the technology of the time, the steam engine unit, the railroad, the air and the Internet. In About Time, Adam Frank talks about how the structure of the lives changes along with our understanding of the universe's source. Since we awoke to self-consciousness 50,000 years ago, our lived connection with time - from hunting and gathering to the introduction of agriculture to the commercial revolution to the technology of Perspective calendars - has been transformed and rebuilt often. However the latest ideas in cosmology - time without beginning, parallel universes, eternal inflation - are going to send us in a fresh path. Time is both our grandest & most personal conception of the world. Many books inform the storyline, recounting the progress of methodical cosmology. Frank explains to the storyline of humanity's deepest question - when and how did everything begin? - alongside the storyline of how humans have observed time. He looks at just how our engagement with the earth - our inventions, our habits and much more - has allowed us to discover the type of the world and how those discoveries, in turn, inform our daily experience. This astounding book will change just how we think about time and how it influences our lives.
