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A review by david611
At the Edge of Uncertainty by Michael Brooks
4.0
At The Edge Of Uncertainty describes eleven discoveries (or possibilities) within eleven chapters that the scientific world knows about but does not clearly understand how or why exactly do they happen to be. They are at this point at the edge of uncertainty. Personally, I felt wonderful as long as it remains 'magic' and the answers are unclear to mankind.
The chapters are themselves very well structured: they start off with a preface to the topic in which the writer pulls you towards its introduction from simply anywhere else; then introduces you to the main precursor ideas (and/or their original discoverers or thinkers) of the topic in history; and then move on to explain the same in the sense of the scientific perception that the topic takes contemporarily. Speculations and proven facts are regular ingredients throughout the book.
The topics dealt in the book are -
Consciousness
Animal Personalities and Animal Culture
Chimeras
Epigenetics
Gender-based Medicine
Will Power
Quantum Phenomena in Biological Kingdoms
Quantum Information Theory
Alternative Creation Theories & Anomalies in the Universe
Hypercomputer
The Illusion of Time
This particular book certainly took me away to exotic topics all at once, that is not usually dealt with so easily in science (through books). The book displays no pictures, diagrams or any graphical information for that matter, whose inclusion could have been helpful at times and increased the rating of the book. Since the book is a new publication (2014), it keeps the user pretty much updated until its current time.
Readers who already have some knowledge of the topics dealt within the book, may not find it amazing, but others definitely would! Lots of names and dates have been included, to which it sometimes becomes boring (at least for me it did). I was personally mesmerized by only three (new) topics (Quantum Biology, Quantum Information Theory, Hypercomputer), since I have had come across most of the remaining topics in my earlier readings. Others were good too, they did contain information which was new to me, although sometimes I found it uninteresting. The writer does not go too deep into a topic, but being superficial should help for people who are interested in general. I personally wished the topics would have been slightly more intense.
The chapters are themselves very well structured: they start off with a preface to the topic in which the writer pulls you towards its introduction from simply anywhere else; then introduces you to the main precursor ideas (and/or their original discoverers or thinkers) of the topic in history; and then move on to explain the same in the sense of the scientific perception that the topic takes contemporarily. Speculations and proven facts are regular ingredients throughout the book.
The topics dealt in the book are -
Consciousness
Animal Personalities and Animal Culture
Chimeras
Epigenetics
Gender-based Medicine
Will Power
Quantum Phenomena in Biological Kingdoms
Quantum Information Theory
Alternative Creation Theories & Anomalies in the Universe
Hypercomputer
The Illusion of Time
This particular book certainly took me away to exotic topics all at once, that is not usually dealt with so easily in science (through books). The book displays no pictures, diagrams or any graphical information for that matter, whose inclusion could have been helpful at times and increased the rating of the book. Since the book is a new publication (2014), it keeps the user pretty much updated until its current time.
Readers who already have some knowledge of the topics dealt within the book, may not find it amazing, but others definitely would! Lots of names and dates have been included, to which it sometimes becomes boring (at least for me it did). I was personally mesmerized by only three (new) topics (Quantum Biology, Quantum Information Theory, Hypercomputer), since I have had come across most of the remaining topics in my earlier readings. Others were good too, they did contain information which was new to me, although sometimes I found it uninteresting. The writer does not go too deep into a topic, but being superficial should help for people who are interested in general. I personally wished the topics would have been slightly more intense.