The Wondrous Universe: Creation without Creator? by Gerhard Börner

By Gerhard Börner

The international because it is considered from sleek physics and cosmology has many unusual and unforeseen positive factors. usually those are in stark distinction with our daily adventure or our preconceptions, equivalent to the concept that of house and time as finite and changeable. but it surely is that this unusual international that's the elemental foundation of our lifestyles. for that reason sleek technological know-how additionally has a number of issues to claim concerning the age-old questions: who're we? – the place will we come from? – the place are we going?

The writer, an skilled scientist and instructor, provides the data that we've got approximately our world for non-experts. he's taking us on a trip via cosmology and the quantum international of undemanding debris. And he sketches the influence of the insights received into philosophical assumptions and spiritual ideals in those disciplines. in spite of everything he asks the speculative query no matter if there's something past the boundaries of the average sciences.

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