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From Eternity to Here
by Sean Carroll
Something about the tone of the first few chapters put me off at first and it took me a long time to get back to this book. Once I did get back to it, though, I read it through quickly and eagerly. Carroll's lighthearted and "geekish" style (which may have been what put me off at first) makes pleasant reading of his voluminous background information so that a casual, non-physicist, reader can get up to some kind of speed, at least, on recent (and not-so-recent) developments in cosmology that pertain to our understanding of time.
Most of the book--maybe 95%--is background information. He reserves explication of his own theory for the last chapter, although it's forwshadowed throughout. I would have preferred a longer explication, mainly because it's pretty mind-warping to me, but it could be that there's just not that much to say about new universes bubbling up out of vacuum energy.
I'm a sucker for popular books on difficult scientific/mathematical subjects so might have this overrated, but I liked it a lot and recommend it.
Most of the book--maybe 95%--is background information. He reserves explication of his own theory for the last chapter, although it's forwshadowed throughout. I would have preferred a longer explication, mainly because it's pretty mind-warping to me, but it could be that there's just not that much to say about new universes bubbling up out of vacuum energy.
I'm a sucker for popular books on difficult scientific/mathematical subjects so might have this overrated, but I liked it a lot and recommend it.