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How do they force events to obey them? Got me. Got everybody. The absence of an explanation is one thing, but the absence of any imaginable form that an explanation could take is something else, and it has caused many cosmologists to throw up their hands. So we are stuck. Yet the very intractability of the problem turns out to have a salutary and fun side effect: All the ordinary kinds of answers being impossible, one begins to think in earnest about the extraordinary ones.
This is a book that gets us to take seriously, at least for a few pages, the proposition that the universe was brought into being by the abstract idea of Goodness.
Hey, Plato thought so. Elsewhere, we get a probabilistic, Bayesian case for the existence of God. The weirdness goes on. And we entertain the possibility that everything was bound to happen. That is the principle of fecundity: the idea that all possible worlds are real. Muse on the implications of that one for your personal life—or lives—on your next subway ride home. Who knows if we have a fecundity of universes.
Clearly, though, we have a fecundity of cosmogonies. How, then, are we supposed to adjudicate among them?
Listen to Holt give it a go. Imagination bridles; feeling fails; a mood yields a conviction. So why does Holt, plainly a rigorous thinker, succumb to such an iffy strategy?
And why do so many of the brilliant cosmologists in his book implicitly or explicitly do the same? The cosmogonies Holt presents are fascinating, illuminating—and, almost without exception, unsupported by evidence.
This raises questions that have nothing to do with the nature of the universe. These answers, too, are up for grabs. A short summary of this paper. Download Download PDF.
Translate PDF. Your Amazon. Like Socrates, Jim Holt advances knowledge customer reviews and understanding by posing incisive and sometimes argumentative questions to leading 5 star: thinkers, living and dead, in the fields of philosophy, theoretical physics, and literature.
This 4 star: 79 methodology produces some intellectual gems. For example, Adolf Grunbaum's scientific 3 star: 36 deconstruction of retrocausation pages is alone worth the price of the book.
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