Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene
Brian Green is a prominent theoretical physicist and famous popularizer of science. His books have helped many people to get acquainted with string theory and other important ideas of modern physics. "Until the end of time" is an attempt to find a place for a person in the picture of the world that modern science describes. Green shows how the cosmos with its galaxies, stars, planets and, finally, life, unfolds in the confrontation between the two great forces - entropy and evolution. Why is there something and not nothing? How do myriads of moving particles acquire the ability to feel and think? How can we comprehend the meaning of life in the chilling perspective of trillions of years in the future, where any thought is eventually doomed to extinction? Green does not always have ready-made answers, but the scientific context makes finding them incomparably more interesting.
