Our Living Multiverse: A Book of Genesis in 0+7 Chapters

by Fred Adams

"Original, delightful, and full of ideas."--Robert Kirshner, Harvard University, author of "The Extravagant Universe" One of the hottest areas in science today is what we are learning at the place where physics meets biology. Among many revelations from this exciting cutting edge of research, Fred Adams relates an idea that would be a radical change in the way we think of the genesis of life. Specifically, life didn't start as pond scum in some primordial oozing lake, but rather in a deep biosphere underground, protected from the continuous bombardment of the Earth's surface that astrophysicists are now certain must have been occurring when life emerged. The genesis of life was IN our planet, not on it! What are the fundamental laws of physics? What was the big bang? How did galaxies form? How did stars form? How did planets form? How did life evolve? Once there was gravity, was life inevitable? Are we alone in the multiverse? A theory of everything is not just about the universe anymore, now it is about the living multiverse.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science

272 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[Paige McLoughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little out of date, the book does include the nineties discovery of Dark Energy, but gets a few preliminary details wrong, from being written during the early days. It covers inflation, eternal inflation, and the multiverse, so it's one of the first to do so in a popular account. It covers the cosmological picture of galaxies, star formation, and planets (note that this is before many exoplanets were found), and it ends with a brief story of life. Pretty much the picture around the year 2000.

[Reija · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is story from very beginning so don't be fooled about multiverse, it is not some fancy scientific sci-fi with many Earths and destanies (which I was seceretly hoping). I find it was pretty hard to read, maybe because of every sentence was packed full of stuff and there are not pictures helping to understand things, occasionally I tried to imagine how Cosmos or Wonders of universe would present these ideas.

Still worth reading but there are easier books to read at first.