So, I didn’t read much fiction last year. Been doing research for my next novel so I read a lot of science books, mostly theoretical physics, which should give you a heads up to the genre of my next project!
Kip Thorne is a pre-eminent theoretical physicist and was the main tech advisor on Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar”. If you like stuff that messes with your head, and your whole understanding of what we know as reality, this is the book for you!
A colleague and frequent collaborator with Stephen Hawking, Theories on time travel, space travel, the beginnings of time itself will give you plenty to ponder.
Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time.
Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as…
Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder is a prominent physicist as well as science populizer and YouTube personality. Her takes on current theories combined with her famously dry (and very German) wit make for a very informative but entertaining read.
I agree with the majority of her theories but not all. She’s a staunch determinist: I still believe in some modicum of Free Will.
"An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us." -The Wall Street Journal
"Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions [...] and have fun doing so." -Science Magazine
From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series "Science without the Gobbledygook," a book that takes a no-nonsense approach to life's biggest questions, and wrestles with what physics really says about the human condition
Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The…
How about that title! It approaches modern physics from a somewhat “new age-y” perspective (I’m probably dating myself with that term) but what spurred me into this area was the stunning revelation I had about two months ago, one fine Saturday morning: that the structure of the Universe, known as the Cosmic Web, is very, very similar to the structure of the neural networks in our brains.
Galaxy clusters and filaments of hydrogen gas that create the cosmic web are analogous to the synapses and neurons in our heads. That will cause your jaw to drop. Google it!
So maybe we really are all just like Horton Hears a Who: floating on a speck of dust inside some giant’s brain!
Chapter Contents1. Freud, Jung, and the Collective Quantum Continuum of Cosmic Consciousness 6 2. How Consciousness Became the Universe183. Awareness, the Origin of Thought, and the Role of Conscious Self-Deception in Resistance and Repression. 474. The Neuropsychology of Development: Hemispheric Laterality, Limbic Language, and the Origins of Thought 625. The Limbic System: Emotion, Laterality, and Unconscious Mind996. Sex, Violence And Religious Experience 1427. Origins of Thought: Consciousness, Language, Egocentric Speech and the Multiplicity of Mind 1998. The Split Brain: Two Brains - Two Minds2229. Hunters, Gatherers, and the Evolution of Sex Differences in Language, Cognition, and Consciousness 25910. Self Deception…
Thailand. The Congo. Greece. Spain. America…Four continents and forty-plus years in the making. The Man Who Screams at Nightfall is a landmark collection of short stories depicting a young man on a classic voyage of self-discovery, wandering the earth in search of some purpose in life. From childhood to parenthood and everything in between—these tales are raw and unflinching; at other times, poignant and moving.
Get ready for a literary journey unlike any you’ve experienced before.
