2/3 OK | The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos

View from the Center of the Universe | The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos | Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams

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	• The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams Riverhead Hardcover, 2006 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The View from the Center of the Universe

This is my second purchase of this book as I bought one to share. The video which comes with the book is also worthy to be shared.

2/3 OK

The fist two parts of this book are excellent and show some good scientific research. The 3rd part, however, delves into conjecture and pure mysticisms and has llittle scietific relationship to the other two. I was surprised that the 3rd part was even inclkuded in this book and I'd recommend that readers just simply skip it.

View from the Center of the Universe

Very interesting but difficult to get through if you are not familiar with the subject and vocabulary.

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The View from the Center of the Universe

I have not finished reading this book but already find it VERY INTERESTING AND "FOOD FOR THOUGHT" ! I am enrolled in a Senior Adults class at the local University which is using this text for discussion and study. So far this is a very new ..for most of us..way of looking at the importance of the role we play in the universe. The authors challenge us with modern scientific facts that open up a whole new view of our potential in our wonderful Universe !

God is Almost Still Here (Sort Of)

I can't make up my mind who this book is trying to reach; the fundamentalists or the godless scientists. The fundamentalists need the dose of wonder-through-cosmology to replace their biblical literacy and, I presume, the non-religious need an alternative to the horrors of existentialism. Falling in the latter camp (except for the existential bit) I find the voodoo-hoodoo dredged up from human pre-science a bit too much like speaking in tongues. The authors attempt to create a set of symbols to go with this new science/religion as a way to achieve some sort of primal archetype substitution. We have to wait until page 276 and 277 to find out about the new God where suddenly He is mentioned 22 times. The big news is that the authors believe "in God as nothing less than the process of opening our personal lines of contact with the unknown potential of the universe". O.K., at least there's nothing in there about rewarding jihadis with 72 virgins, but how much does science have to whittle down the God thing before we dispose of it once and for all?
Lest anyone should think my take-away from this book is all negative let me close on a positive note by recommending it as a good brush-up and review of current cosmology. Many of the concepts such as scale and time bias are worthy of serious thought. It is always a good thing to be reminded of the utter weirdness of the universe.

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A world-renowned astrophysicist and a science philosopher present a new, scientifically supported understanding of the universe, one that will forever change our personal relationship with the cosmos.

For four hundred years, since early scientists discovered that the universe did not revolve around the earth, people have felt cut off-adrift in a meaningless cosmos. That is about to change.

In their groundbreaking new book, The View from the Center of the Universe, Joel R. Primack, Ph.D., one of the world's leading cosmologists, and Nancy Ellen Abrams, a philosopher and writer, use recent advances in astronomy,physics, and cosmology to frame a compelling new theory of how to understand the universe and our role in it.

While most of us think of the universe as empty space peppered with stars separated by vast distances, the truth, the authors argue, is far richer and more meaningful. For the first time in history, we know that the universe is more coherent and spiritually significant than anyone ever imagined and that our place in it is actually central to the expanding universe in important ways.

According to Primack and Abrams, this new cosmology clarifies how the universe operates, what it's made of, how it may have originated, and how it is evolving. Even more surprising, these startling ideas spring from both cutting-edge science and the metaphors of ancient symbols. The result is a very human book that satisfies our fundamental need for order and meaning in our world and in our lives.

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