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The First Three Minutes
- A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Publisher's summary
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic.
Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the elements that forged stars, planets, and lifeforms, to the fundamental forces of physics, can be traced back to what happened in just the first three minutes of its existence.
In this book, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg describes in wonderful detail what happened in these first three minutes. It is an exhilarating journey that begins with the Planck Epoch—the earliest period of time in the history of the universe—and goes through Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the Hubble Red Shift, and the detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background. These incredible discoveries all form the foundation for what we now understand as the "standard model" of the origin of the universe. The First Three Minutes examines not only what this model looks like, but also tells the exciting story of the bold thinkers who put it together.
Clearly and accessibly written, The First Three Minutes is a modern-day classic, an unsurpassed explanation of where it is that everything really comes from.
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Good, but for whom?
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The World According to Physics
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Shining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what this crucially important science tells us about the universe and the nature of reality itself. Al-Khalili begins by introducing the fundamental concepts of space, time, energy, and matter, and then describes the three pillars of modern physics - quantum theory, relativity, and thermodynamics - showing how all three must come together if we are ever to have a full understanding of reality.
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excellent book
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By: Jim Al-Khalili
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How much can we know about the world? In this audiobook physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing he reaches a provocative conclusion: Science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know.
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Island of knowledge
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A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Best-selling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott take listeners on an unforgettable journey of exploration to reveal how our universe actually works. Propelling you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space, this book builds your cosmic insight and perspective through a marvelously entertaining narrative.
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A brief welcome for everyone
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Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped some of the finest minds. With elegant explanations that bring the listener inside the mind of those who've developed them, Al-Khalili helps us to see that, in fact, paradoxes can be solved if seen from the right angle.
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Almost Useless
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Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the 21st-century technology that we now take for granted. But at the same time it has completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at its most fundamental level.
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who's the target reader?
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Very Interesting, but ...
- By Doug on 01-01-06
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Wow!
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Interesting book, but WOW, the narrator ...
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- Bubblehog
- 05-10-23
Lucid, understandable cosmology, but lax editing
The explanation of the Standard Model and the way it was developed from astronomy, spectroscopy, and mathematics is fascinating. However, the audiobook contains a number of passages that are repeated, and one fairly long passage that is there three times in a row
! The main text dates from 1977, with notes from 1993. It’s too bad there isn’t an update that takes into account the cancellation of the Superconducting Supercollider and the new findings from the Large Hadron Collider and the Hubble and James Webb orbiting telescopes.
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- Maricela
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Interesting
I enjoyed listening to this audiobook. I found it most interesting. Thank you for producing.
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- Kodai
- 05-04-23
Good information... for 30 years ago
There's a number of problematic things in this book. For example the writer saying that Neutrinos have no mass and giving the wrong amount of time from the big bang to the last scattering surface. Another is saying that the universe could only be open or closed, not including the more likely possibility of it being flat. These are all explainable in that the information in this book is 30 years out of date. At one point the author even comments on the formation of the committee that lead to the launch of the WMAP probe, that first mapped the entirety of the CMB.
There's also a number of technical glitches. Most are pretty small, but at one point the narrator re-reads several pages of the text.
Overall, there's better books on this subject. It does act as a good signpost on where our knowledge was.
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- Robyn C.
- 05-08-23
Interesting listen
I found the juxtaposition of the extreme scale differences to be interesting. The extremely large expanses of space and the extremely small particles. The strong and weak forces, etc.
As someone with an engineering background the math wasn’t difficult or rigorous, but it might be a bit much if you find any math off putting it might not be for you. Since this text is from the time I started college and I am now retired it has spiked my interest sufficiently to look for an update with learnings from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes and the LHC.
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- Bailey Rose
- 05-25-23
3.5 Rounding up to 4
This was somewhat understandable for the complete novice that I am. Did I understand everything? Absolutely. NOT. Did I understand some of it? YES. I am glad that I saw this one and decided to listen to it. I especially enjoyed the parts where I could reference back in my memory with The Big Bang Theory series.
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- RWW
- 11-23-22
All things are born in the stars
Besides being very accurate,the narration of the book was excellent. A background in science would improve the immediate understanding of the work.
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- Veenray
- 04-29-23
Interesting, but very tech/math heavy.
An enlightening story on the beginning of the universe. A strong background in science and math is necessary to grasp many of the principles described. I enjoyed this class on Cosmology!
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- Gudmundur Hardarson
- 12-29-23
Old but interesting
First of all, this is an old book, written at a time when we knew much less about the cosmos and physics. But still it is a very good base for our current knowledge of the universe and our most accepted models. (Even though it looks like some of them might currently be reaching their end.) This is also one of the cool cases where an author of supreme intellect explains his area of expertise in a clear and accessible way.
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- Charles Mintz
- 05-11-23
Good tale but some problems
Many times the recording repeats what was just said. Very frustrating. His desire to get away from scientific notation might work on the page but the second time you hear “0 point 0 0 0 0 0 0 026”you want hit someone. Then he throws in parsecs in the end, a unit only used in cosmology. Also, he seems to lose nerve and then we get million million million followed by the scientific notation. Did they edit this book?
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- TomK1
- 05-03-23
Interesting, but a bit dated.... weird glitches
I enjoyed this, but book is somewhat dated considering the advances of understanding in particle physics. over the past few decades.
But the really odd part is that within chapters, this book repeats small sections with chapters, making it a bit annoying to listen to. It feels like Audible or the publisher need to fix this file to get rid of these repeating sections.
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