Product Details
Simon & Schuster UK, June 2009
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1847374166
ISBN-13: 9781847374165
Description
What really happened at the moment of the Big Bang? And how the hell do we know? And why is finding out so important? And who are these people who design and build these experiments? And is it all worth it?
Andy Martin sets out on a road trip to search for the soul of the universe. In his personal quest for the mother of all truths, he has to go all the way back to the origin of time and space. He climbs up to the highest observatory in the world and sticks his head inside a 4 km-long laser tube capable of surfing waves from the Big Bang. He sees himself the way he used to be in a mirror and he discovers where you go when you die. He has close encounters with aliens and intimations of immortality. This book has everything -- science, philosophy, literature, religion, Einstein, Weinstein, God, the Godfather, all seen through a glass darkly.
Andy Martin sets out on a road trip to search for the soul of the universe. In his personal quest for the mother of all truths, he has to go all the way back to the origin of time and space. He climbs up to the highest observatory in the world and sticks his head inside a 4 km-long laser tube capable of surfing waves from the Big Bang. He sees himself the way he used to be in a mirror and he discovers where you go when you die. He has close encounters with aliens and intimations of immortality. This book has everything -- science, philosophy, literature, religion, Einstein, Weinstein, God, the Godfather, all seen through a glass darkly.
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IntroductionThe Independent, March 18, 2010
...house saying things like, 'Oy! Haven't you finished with the Reacher yet?' Or should I say... Yet? Andy Martin's latest book is 'Beware Invisible Cows' (Simon & Schuster ...
The Independent, July 30, 2009
...but straight (or 'flatland') history. Sun-kissed, psychedelic and sexually-enhanced, Pynchon has re-embodied, re-grooved the soul of the Sixties. Andy Martin teaches French at Cambridge University; his books include 'Stealing the Wave' and ...
Telegraph, July 20, 2009
...Helen Brown reviews an oddball account of the universe by Andy Martin Andy Martin is best known for his books on surfing, but he gets caught up in waves of a different kind in this quirky, personal quest for the source ...
The Independent, July 9, 2009
...which is the object of all that paddling around watching and waiting. Ex-surfer, now Cambridge academic and historian, Andy Martin, must have spent a lot of his downtime before the wave 'take off' meditating on the bigger questions. Where ...
New Scientist, June 3, 2009
...Subscribe and get 4 free issues. For similar stories, visit the Books and Art Topic Guide Book information Beware Invisible Cows: My search for the source of the universe by Andy Martin Published by: Simon & Schuster Price: £12.99 PART ...
