God's Laughter: Man and His Cosmos - Softcover

Staguhn, Gerhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568360452 ISBN 13: 9781568360454

Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc, 1994

Synopsis

In the bestselling tradition of A Brief History of Time, a dazzling account of the age-old quest to unravel the riddle of the universe, which eludes us ever more craftily the closer we think we've come to it--or as the Jewish proverb says, "Man thinks, God laughs".

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From Library Journal:

God's Laughter is about humanity's search for meaning in the universe through both science and religion. After reviewing world views from the classical philosophers through Newton, Staguhn, a German journalist, centers on the perceptual shift from Newton's stable, mathematically described universe to Einstein's mathematically stable but relativistic universe, which cannot be truly comprehended except as a "cosmic religiousness." He then shows how this view is similar to Taoist and Buddhist world views. Our conception of the world has also been altered by quantum and particle physics. Staguhn says that physics and cosmology have entered the world of metaphysics, overlapping with religion, so that now physics requires as much faith as religion. He concludes with a discussion of recent cosmological theories such as the black holes. This book is similar to Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (LJ 4/15/88) and will appeal to a broad audience of interested lay readers.
- Eric D. Albright, Galter Health Sciences Lib., Northwestern Univ. , Chicago
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1568360452
• ISBN 13: 9781568360454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272