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Vor Dem Anfang : Eine Geschichte Des Universums (2000)

by Martin J. Rees(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Martin Rees did a good job of explaining what theories are out there, what supports them and why, with the alternative points of view. Throughout this book, he was careful to present the facts in a clear, unbiased manner, all the while giving the reader a good basis to reach their own conclusions.He did not claim to have all the answers or anything close to that. He took the attitude that we we think today makes sense to us from our investigations; what we think later will depend on what we have determined at that point. Come back in 1,000 years, and the ideas may be very different.Putting all this together, I have to wonder if we can really rely on mathematics to identify whatever happens in the vicinity of black holes. My suspicion is that conventional analysis will ... morenot extend that far, and mathematical equations simply cannot help us very much there. We cannot even begin to very accurately predict the path of a hurricane -- what makes us so certain we can say anything conclusive about a black hole that is a vast distance away? Or is there any valid reason to expect one black hole to behave just like another?I do not believe in the concept of wormholes to other universes. Chances are we have plenty of other universes to keep company with ours, but getting there through a wormhole? This idea strikes me as being far past anything other than conjecture.Anyway, Martin Rees wrote a very informative book. The whole subject wears me out, though. My favorite subject is math: As long as it is based on Euclid. Black holes probably break all of Euclid's axioms, so I do not especially want to think or read about them and their "event horizons" any more.
review 2: For a self-proclaimed atheist, Rees makes the best argument (from a cosmological perspective) I've ever seen for the existence of God. Rees' work is way better than anything by Stephen Hawking.I only give this four stars because, of course, Rees' conclusions are all wrong. To avoid acknowledging a Creator, Rees decides that our exquisitely fine-tuned Universe must be one of an infinite number of universes (the "Multiverse" argument). Takes a lot more faith than just believing what the Bible tells us... less

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