The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself Audiobook (Free)

*An instant New York Times Bestseller*

*Publishers Regular #1 Most Anticipated Technology Book of Springtime 2016*

‘You will become enthralled.’ – Wall structure Street Journal

‘A tour de power.’ – Salon.com

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing in the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is usually emerging among the most significant humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his remarkable intellect to bear not merely about Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also in about THE PICTURE AS A WHOLE: Around the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our feelings, our values, and our expectations and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Will human being purpose and meaning fit into a medical worldview?

In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers find out the difference between the way the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, as well as the individual level–and then how each connects towards the additional. Carroll’s presentation from the principles which have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the roots of life, awareness, as well as the universe is definitely dazzlingly unique.

Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few century has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and period, however they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.

The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for a long time to come.

*Includes an added bonus PDF with graphs and images.