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‘It’s a beautiful fact that we humans can
do so much more than we were perhaps intended to do’
Max Tegmark
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1. Seeking
answers
Philosophers and theologians have long debated our purpose in
the universe. We have always assumed that there is some higher
purpose for humanity, but the universe it seems may have other
ideas.
In Why Are We Here? Martin Rees explains how scientists
have had to revise long-held beliefs about the very nature of
the universe, and in the process re-evaluate our place here.
To do this, Rees presents some of the most fundamental questions
about the universe and our own origins: What was the beginning?
What is the nature of life? What is the future of the cosmos
and the nature of reality?
The answers may not be what you expect. Empty space is not so
empty after all. Most of the universe is made up not of atoms,
as previously thought, but of a mysterious and elusive substance
called ‘dark matter’. Without it the universe simply
would not exist.
But working against dark matter is an even more mysterious force
that threatens to tear the universe apart – ‘dark
energy’.
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