The First Cocktail in London by Tom Conrad

On the Origin of Time takes you on a quest to understand questions bigger than our universe, and offers a bold and stimulating new take on its fundamentals. Once upon a time, perhaps, there was no time? Peering into the extreme quantum physics of cosmic holograms and venturing far back in time to our deepest roots, we were startled to find a deeper level of evolution in which the physical laws themselves transform until particles, forces, and even time itself fades away. Holed up in the theoretical physics department at Cambridge, Stephen Hawking and I worked shoulder to shoulder for twenty years, developing a new theory of the cosmos that could account for the emergence of life. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the math predicted many big bangs producing many universes, most far too bizarre to harbor life. Science & Cocktails is proud to present an episode with cosmologist Thomas Hertog who is about to launch his new book “On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory”. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141199788 Number of pages: 128 Weight: 100 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 7 mm You may also be interested in.Science & Cocktails is a series of public talks by scientists with live music and smoky dry-ice chilled cocktails in your hand.īe the first to know when the next Science & Cocktails Amsterdam event(s) will take place by subscribing to our newsletter.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. Conrad's Heart of Darkness has been considered the most important indictment of the evils of imperialism written to date. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling.

Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a wink' What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The First Cocktail in London by Tom Conrad