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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Leonard Susskind is one of the most renowned physicists alive, and his insights have been confirmed again and again. In this book, he takes on the anthropic principle and uses it for his own purposes, which are none other than proving that our universe is indeed a pocket universe in a megaverse with thousands, perhaps millions of other universes under a perpetually inflationary landscape.
His prose is not always easy or engaging, but the effort the reader may put into plodding thrugh the pages will be handsomely rewarded with new paradigms in cosmology and physics with profound philosophical and spiritual implications.
Nothing less than the basis of a new cosmology and a new worldview from one of the greatest scientific minds of our time.
His prose is not always easy or engaging, but the effort the reader may put into plodding thrugh the pages will be handsomely rewarded with new paradigms in cosmology and physics with profound philosophical and spiritual implications.
Nothing less than the basis of a new cosmology and a new worldview from one of the greatest scientific minds of our time.
30 of 42 people found the following review helpful
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Leonard Susskind is one of the world's most original and inspired theoretical physicists. The culmination of his life's work is described without mathematics in this book. His brilliance of lateral thinking is on a par with Einstein. He turns conventional big bang theory on its head and explains with stunning simplicity how our Universe could have been so astonishingly fine-tuned as to allow intelligent life. I just wish I could remember all the detail in between without having to read and reread and ...
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The author succeeds in presenting a non-mathematical summary of current ideas in Theoretical Physics. He has an engaging writing style and uses analogies, anecdotes and humour to help combat reader information overload. Non-intuitive ideas come thick and fast throughout the book. Credit is given to a large number of Physicists many of whom appear to be personal friends. The author does promote String Theory but is unapologetic claiming that there is no current alternative approach to discuss. Some of the ideas are quite disturbing. It appears that current theories cannot be subjected to experiment which made this reader consider whether the word 'story' rather than 'theory' is more appropriate. The author has strong personal views and gives short shrift to the so-called Anthropic Principle. Regarding God, clearly he does ally himself with those that have "no need for this hypothesis". Therefore it is surprising to see frequent use of the word 'believe' in the latter chapters and one instance of the word 'preaching'. Perhaps Theroretical Physicists do have something in common with fundamental religious groups. Perosnally I hope there is something fundamentally wrong with the mathematics such that the Landscape of the title, the Megaverse and Pocket Universes are just figments of the imagination.
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