The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World

by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams

Book Overview

Two cutting-edge thinkers--one a cultural philosopher and the other a leading astrophysicist--combine their abilities to present a new picture of the universe with critical relevance for our time

After a four-century rupture between science and the questions of value and meaning, this groundbreaking book presents an explosive and potentially life-altering idea: if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181248
• ISBN13: 9780300181241
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 8.8"