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  • Until the End of Time

  • Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
  • By: Brian Greene
  • Narrated by: Brian Greene
  • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (172 ratings)

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From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose.

In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws. On this cosmic time line, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die. And, we know, so too will the universe itself.

Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to understand it. Greene takes us on a journey across time, from our most refined understanding of the universe's beginning, to the closest science can take us to the very end. He explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in story, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth and our longing for the timeless or eternal.

Through a series of nested stories that explain distinct but interwoven layers of reality - from the quantum mechanics to consciousness to black holes - Greene provides us with a clearer sense of how we came to be, a finer picture of where we are now and a firmer understanding of where we are headed.

Yet all this understanding, which arose with the emergence of life, will dissolve with its conclusion. Which leaves us with one realisation: during our brief moment in the sun, we are tasked with the charge of finding our own meaning. Let us embark.

©2020 Brian Greene (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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Too much complicated waffling

There are a lot of interesting things in this book. However, I feel like he used the most complicated language possible. It also feels like the explanation is so long and twisted that it is extremely hard to stat concentrated. Maybe it's just me who had a hard time following through it all, but my attention was forcefully shifting away from the Audiobook (never happened to me before, at least not to this extent). On multiple occasions, I had the question of "Okay, I understood this, but where are you leading it to?"

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enjoyable listen

Brian greene is a great story teller, physics is good and easy to follow, philosophy was pretty lightweight and feel good, was expecting more of it based off his JR interview

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Watching the watcher

A brilliant journey with Brian through the small the big the past the future filled with knowledge and honest acknowledgement of the unknown.

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A mix of revealing analogy & over-egged waffle

what a shame this wasn't the treat or treatment I expected but worth a skim.

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Puts things in perspective!

A tour de force across a diverse range of topics in time, life and timelessness!

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An amazing journey from start to finish!

An extremely interesting journey from the big bang to the far off future where thought and matter itself cease to be. Brilliantly narrated by Brian himself he touches on everything from Entropy to Free Will, Art, Religion, Quantum Mechanics and Black Holes. This is my first Brian Greene book but I will most certainly be ordering the rest of his catalogue now. A brilliant communicator of science and even as a layman myself I managed to stay with him most of the way through this. There were a couple of tricky sections but still fascinating nonetheless. 100% recommend

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Great book full with knowledge

I like the authors way of narrative despite not agreeing with everything he mentioned

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B Greene is the best

I like his style. He can explain the most complex ides in the simplest language. This book helps everyone understand physiques and phylosophy

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too much philosophy

looking for physics found philosophy. Not what I was looking for. The physics parts were good though

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It was ok

Some interesting parts, but it didn't grip me at all so the book took a long time to get through and I drifted through much of it paying little attention. I may give it another try in the future.

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