In the quest for ‘the God particle,’ mystics get a new machine
If you listen to what cosmologists say about the origin of the universe, you have to put your mind in a place where mystics also dwell.
If you listen to what cosmologists say about the origin of the universe, you have to put your mind in a place where mystics also dwell.
Is evolution the merely pointless, meaningless consequence of having world enough and time, or is our current state of consciousness just too embryonic to grasp the telos of the universe?
Biting off more than most of us can chew, husband and wife authors Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams have taken on the enormously ambitious task of tackling that age-old question: How did the world get here, and does our existence really matter? Their new book, \”The View From the Center of the Universe, Discovering our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos\” (Riverhead Books, 2006), uses cosmology — the astrophysical study of the history and structure of the universe – to meld \”Meaning\” and science to reach a greater understanding of the origins of life.