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A review by paigemcloughlin
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll
5.0
Damn time does a number on all of us Seanny boy. Old Ted Talk by the author from 11 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaTyg8wR4Y
I am rereading this book again. I have read I think most of Carroll's popular books. This one is one of my favorites because it deals with entropy, time's arrow, cosmology, the inflationary big bang, Boltzmann Brains, and multiverses. This is his earliest popular work and I think his best and the most fun. I like his something deeply hidden as well but this book is my fave.
update 10/4/2021 This book covers the big bang, time, and entropy and how all three are inextricably linked in a conundrum of the universe. Entropy is always increasing but why did it start so low at the beginning. If the universe was going to come into being it is astronomically more like to start at near maximum entropy but it didn't the beginning was very special. We wouldn't be here (except as a Boltzmann brain and you don't want to be a Boltzmann brain) if the universe didn't start at shockingly low entropy, Excellent romp through high level physics and cosmology.
Update 10/3/2022 (I still use four digits for the year because I can't accept that we are no longer living in the twentieth century). Anyway early book by Carroll that has all the themes of Carroll's later Career. Time, Entropy, Multiverse, Many-worlds interpretation, Inflationary Cosmology, Boltzmann Brains. People can be damned consistent, can't they?
Anyway, I put detail in the page updates. Have fun.
https://youtu.be/kfffy12uQ7g
https://youtu.be/kii-s2eDZps
https://youtu.be/yKbJ9leUNDE
https://youtu.be/3AMCcYnAsdQ
https://youtu.be/MTFY0H4EZx4
https://youtu.be/sAMlGyaUz4M
https://youtu.be/HxTnqKuNygE
https://youtu.be/mg0hueOyoAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaTyg8wR4Y
I am rereading this book again. I have read I think most of Carroll's popular books. This one is one of my favorites because it deals with entropy, time's arrow, cosmology, the inflationary big bang, Boltzmann Brains, and multiverses. This is his earliest popular work and I think his best and the most fun. I like his something deeply hidden as well but this book is my fave.
update 10/4/2021 This book covers the big bang, time, and entropy and how all three are inextricably linked in a conundrum of the universe. Entropy is always increasing but why did it start so low at the beginning. If the universe was going to come into being it is astronomically more like to start at near maximum entropy but it didn't the beginning was very special. We wouldn't be here (except as a Boltzmann brain and you don't want to be a Boltzmann brain) if the universe didn't start at shockingly low entropy, Excellent romp through high level physics and cosmology.
Update 10/3/2022 (I still use four digits for the year because I can't accept that we are no longer living in the twentieth century). Anyway early book by Carroll that has all the themes of Carroll's later Career. Time, Entropy, Multiverse, Many-worlds interpretation, Inflationary Cosmology, Boltzmann Brains. People can be damned consistent, can't they?
Anyway, I put detail in the page updates. Have fun.
https://youtu.be/kfffy12uQ7g
https://youtu.be/kii-s2eDZps
https://youtu.be/yKbJ9leUNDE
https://youtu.be/3AMCcYnAsdQ
https://youtu.be/MTFY0H4EZx4
https://youtu.be/sAMlGyaUz4M
https://youtu.be/HxTnqKuNygE
https://youtu.be/mg0hueOyoAw