Until the End of Time by Brian Greene

 "A splendid and invigorating read . . . Across three hundred pages, he fans out the fabric of our present understanding, deftly untangling then interweaving the science of everything from black holes to quanta to DNA, tracing how matter made mind made imagination, probing the pull of eternity and storytelling and the sublime.

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~Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

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"Until the End of Time is encyclopedic in its ambition and its erudition, often heartbreaking . . . A love letter to the ephemeral cosmic moment when everything is possible."
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~Dennis Overbye, The New York Times Book Review
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Reinventing the light summer read...As we emerge from a difficult winter into a bright, hot summer, our headspace is gradually shifting from hunkered down to opened up and spacious. What do do with this new spaciousness? For some, the answer is clear: contemplate "Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" with Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe! Now that we have the bandwidth, we can treat ourselves to this breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to understand it.

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The universe is astoundingly vast both in time and space, and yet it appears to be governed by simple, elegant, mathematical laws. Guided by these laws, Greene takes us on a journey from our most refined understanding of the universe's beginning to the closest science can take us to the very end. In accessible language backed up with scientific accuracy, he explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos, and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in narrative, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and our longing for the timeless.

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As Greene describes, it is within these pursuits that we experience profound wonder and create great beauty, even as the universe and all it contains is destined for decay. (As we said, light summer reading!) Through a series of nested stories that explain distinct but interwoven layers of reality--Particles to Planets, Consciousness to Creativity, Matter to Meaning--Greene traces the interplay along the cosmic timeline between entropy and evolution. He aims to provide us with a clearer sense of how we came to be, a finer picture of where we are now, and a firmer grasp of where we are headed. With this grand tour of the universe, beginning to end, Brian Greene allows us all to understand and appreciate our fleeting but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos.

About the Author    

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Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics and director of Columbia University's Center for Theoretical Physics and is renowned for his groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. He is the author of The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Hidden Reality, which have collectively spent sixty-five weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and sold more than two million copies worldwide, and he has hosted two Peabody and Emmy Award winning NOVA miniseries based on his books. With producer Tracy Day, Greene cofounded the World Science Festival. He lives in New York.      

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