Cosmic Jackpot

[BoredWithNoSB]

Anyone read this yet? I heard the author interviewed on NPR and it sounded solid. Amazon reviews also seem to imply it might be a solid book that proposes God may be just as likely as anything else based on all existing theories having strong presuppositions and the fact that the goldilocks enigma is just as fantanstic as ID. However, it implies both are likely wrong.

I'm planning on picking the book up and reading over the next few days, but I wanted to see if anybody else had a chance to check it out. It doesn't hurt that it is written by a fellow Sun Devil, Paul Davies.

[BoredWithNoSB]

Just got to page 200 and calling it a night. Not a bad book, not good either, but the 'Matrix' explination is very well done. Basically, if you believe in the multiverse theory than there's a high liklihood reality, for us, is not real. Also, under that theory, the runners of the simulation would, in fact, be Gods. The way things are put together is just cool.

Brings up many, many points about how the weights of electrons & protons are so exacty proportonate and how carbon being created from helium during the big bang had such a small margin for error and how the exact weight of dark matter makes such a huge difference (10^21 difference and there'd be no universe). Gets you thinking about things at least.

I am bummed on some level I read the book, though, one of the things I'm trying to overcome is a futility of lfe & reality thought cycle I've had for the last year. Unfortunately, the explination of what would happen if dark matter moved to a lower energy state, what would happen in the case of the acceloration of universal expansion conitnued, or what would happen in the case of the the big crunch all left me with the same feeling of futility.

I had never heard of this multiverse thing (basically quantum leap) as a real scientific theory. Pretty swift. Pretty F*ed up too.

I learned a lot. I really didn't know about the details of event horizons or what caused the limits of the observable universe. So, form that aspect a good read.

I'll finish the book tomorrow and start on "The World Without Us", a book I'm sure will never reach the bookshelf of Ryr.