Get ready for the exploration of a lifetime. Inventory of the Universe whisks you from the original elementary particles in the confines of 14 billion years of outer space through Earth's protective atmosphere, zips down to our lush livable home-base globe, plunges into the absorbing aqueous kingdom of water, darts onto hospitable terra firma with its exotic flora, oftentimes bizarre fauna and you and me, probably the most extraordinary and enigmatic beings on earth with our handy multi-functional bodies, intelligent, thinking (sometimes) brains and imaginative (sometimes a little too much) minds.
Inventory will plunk you down in atypical situations and dare to ask unanswerable Was there anything before Big Bang? How can stardust become a reasoning human being? How can animals walk and run off with all the Olympic medals while man beats them hands down, for all the Nobel prizes?
We'll whiz around the universe with Galacti, our ubiquitous roving reporter, turning each of the puzzle pieces that compose our Universe right side up. To begin our quest to put the puzzle together and discover how to bring peace and prosperity to Earth, we must first take inventory to understand the bigger issues in life, indeed, life itself. How can we solve this if we don't know what the real issues are?
Inventory is designed to broaden your horizons. If we want the explanation for the big questions in life, who am I? Why am I here? Can I reach peace and prosperity? We need to focus on the fundamental issues (tree trunk and roots) instead of the day-to-day issues (budding branches and falling leaves). Daily news focuses on twigs ... are you aware of the totality of the tree and forest? Inventory raises your eyes from your immediate environment to encompass the countryside, the nation, the world, the universe... and even beyond.
The Explanation series answers the personal questions Why am I here? And how do I, along with all other human beings,attain peace and prosperity? An incredible journey we’ll take, one step at a time, arriving at a destination that is far beyond anything we humans could imagine. Along the way, you’ll identify solid evidence for following this pathway and answers to the big questions in life, as we delve into this baffling mystery.
Inventory of the Universe, the first book in The Explanation series, is a writing journey. Be prepared to travel on an investigative adventure into uncharted territory, beckoning to be discovered.
Sam Kneller was born in London and has lived around the world in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Israel and Belgium with the last 35 years in France. I spent 25 years in the Christian Ministry in Canada and France. In the late 90’s, I taught webmastering and carried out technical writing.
In 1998 I started BonjourLaFrance.com, a successful site for travel and tourism in France, and am now occupied with webmastering, studying, teaching, speaking and writing.
From my sheltered life at the age of 17 Sam Kneller went to the Middle East to continue my schooling and was immersed in a ‘world and mind opening experience’, living in Israel, learning Hebrew and reading Time magazine cover to cover.
At 19 Sam Kneller moved to Belgium to be plunged into Europe, French and the diamond industry. 1968 was another year of big change, in a quest for understanding, I gave up a life of affluence and moved to the UK to resume my college education.
I’ve always had an interest in how things, anything and everything, work. I remember standing for hours watching construction sites, fascinated by the equipment and the building process. This lead me to the fields of mathematics and physics and later my inquisitive mind ended up posing questions about life itself.
My personal life voyage has taken me places I never dreamed of and my writing journey will take you on an investigative adventure into unchartered territory beckoning to be discovered.
This is like an updated and longer "view from a height" by Isaac Asimov. A overview of the world and science from physics to biology. If you are familiar with evolution, photosynthesis, black holes, as such "from a height", then this is probably not for you. I found myself skipping several pages at a time to get through the many general areas I am already familiar with. As a general encyclopedia for someone not science minded, it is good.