*** 1/2 /*****                                                                                                    Science A Brief History of Time From the Big Bang to Black Holes             I first read this book a few years back. This was my first book on cosmology and if I remember correctly, I hadn’t read any other book on popular science till then. To me Big Bang was just a very loud and huge explosion. How the heck did this create th...

Science Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? Paul Davies Since time immemorial man has repeatedly asked these questions; why was this universe created, what is the role of man in it? Progress of science and human reason (and philosophy) gave us finer and more convincing explanations to these basic questions but one question always remained in the end; why this particular explanation? Every theory; Big Bang, Inflationary Universe, Multiverse, or Intelligent Design, leads to this infinite regression of why this particular theory and who chose and why he chose this particular theory to create universe? How did He come into existence? Einstein in his last days was frenetically looking for the ultimate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) which would unite all the forces in the universe and provide a simple explanation for its existence. But success eluded him and more than sixty years after his death physicists are still looking for this holy grail of science. Str...

                                                                                                                                                   Science The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of Universe Steven Weinberg Urge to ruminate over the origin of universe and life is dateless and ubiquitous. Once the body is well clothed, fed, secure and sufficiently sexed, nothing else satisfies mind as well as the pursuance of this eternal quest. All religions, cultures and schools of philosophy have speculated on these seemingly insuperable queries from time immemorial. But the most thrilling and bew...

*** 1/2 /*****                                                                                                    Science From Eternity to here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time Sean Carroll Time has baffled philosophers, scientists, and the masses since the dawn of thought. It is impossible to imagine a world without time and it is equally difficult to accept time just as another dimension of our universe. Our existence and even the infinite universe with its billions of stars seems ...