Until the End of Time
- Author Brian Greene
- Narrator Brian Greene
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 14 hours and 37 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Astrophysics, Cosmology and the universe, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology.
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What to expect
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From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose
In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws.
On this cosmic timeline, our human era is spectacular but fleeting.
Someday, we know, we will all die.
And, we know, so too will the universe itself.
Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to understand it. Greene takes us on a journey across time, from our most refined understanding of the universe's beginning, to the closest science can take us to the very end. He explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos, and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in story, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and our longing for the timeless, or eternal. Through a series of nested stories that explain distinct but interwoven layers of reality-from the quantum mechanics to consciousness to black holes-Greene provides us with a clearer sense of how we came to be, a finer picture of where we are now, and a firmer understanding of where we are headed.
Yet all this understanding, which arose with the emergence of life, will dissolve with its conclusion. Which leaves us with one realization: during our brief moment in the sun, we are tasked with the charge of finding our own meaning.
Let us embark.
© Brian Greene 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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A cracking read…Greene serves up plenty of revelatory detail… If you want to know how everything got here and where it’s going, read this book.
Sunday Times -
Until the End of Time is encyclopaedic in its ambition and its erudition, often heartbreaking, stuffed with too many profundities that I wanted to quote, as well as anecdotes from Greene’s own life – of which we should wish for more – that had me laughing … A love letter to the ephemeral cosmic moment when everything is possible.
New York Times -
It takes a storyteller to explain the sciences, and few are as gifted as Brian Greene. There’s real wonder in his descriptions of galaxies and planets forming, and of life blooming after that. It is all part of a fleeting moment in the cosmos – one that will eventually end – yet Greene finds meaning and optimism in everything around us.
Chris Schluep, Amazon Editor -
A writer of exceptional clarity and charm
Oliver Sacks -
He is both a skilled and kindly explicator. His excitement for science on the threshold of vital breakthroughs is extremely contagious
The New York Times -
The new Hawking only better
The Times
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