Time One: Discover How the Universe Began

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Pub Date 15 Apr 2013 | Archive Date 07 Apr 2014

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Comprehensive in scope, consistently accessible, and entirely fascinating (even more so on a second reading), Time One takes us back to the first instant of time the emergence of the Universe moving one century, one theory, one imaginative leap after another in five Parts: The Case History sets out three thousand years of scientific, historical and philosophical perspective. The Cosmic Clues turns 47 of science’s and philosophy’s most troubling problems into a would-be detective’s best evidence. The Apprehensions transcends mere logic and reason by using Einstein’s thought experiment to create the impossible. The Way of it All puts the puzzle together, pointing to a new Theory of Everything that makes it all make sense. From Here to Eternity turns our attention forward to what might be, what could be, what will be, once we see that it really happened this way . . . This is the ultimate mystery.

Modern life was transformed a century ago by Einstein’s theory of relativity and revolutionized yet again by quantum mechanics. Yet neither theory can answer our most basic questions: How did time begin? What happened before the Big Bang? Perhaps, says Colin Gillespie, the answer will come not from atom-splitting physicists but from the deductive musings of a fictional detective. How would Sherlock Holmes proceed? What if science’s problems were the clues? So begins the case, traversing three thousand years of philosophy, three hundred years of physics, thirty years of deep-space experiments leading us step by step to an elegant and profoundly simple insight.

Comprehensive in scope, consistently accessible, and entirely fascinating (even more so on a second reading), Time One takes us back to the first instant of time the emergence of the Universe moving...


Advance Praise

If you’ve ever been lost in wonder at the night sky you must have asked yourself the most basic of all questions… Where did it all come from? How did it begin? Does it end? If it does, what’s on the other side? If it doesn’t, how can that be?

I’m not a physicist. I’m certainly not a cosmologist. I don’t know if what Dr. Gillespie says makes sense according to the “known” laws of physics. But, there is an intuitive logic to his story; a simplicity to the theory that has the “ring of truth” as we lawyers say. If he’s right, he probably deserves a Nobel Prize. If he’s not, then at least he had the courage to try and if that leads someone else to look at the puzzles a little bit differently and so get a little bit closer to the “truth”, then it was well worth the effort.

Time One is not for the faint of heart. It takes work and it makes your brain hurt. But it’s supposed to. Don’t stop to try to figure out every little twist, turn or nuance. Let it wash over you. But keep pushing through to the end. If you go for a workout at the gym you don’t expect it to be easy; you don’t want it to be. This is a workout for your brain. Do yourself a favour and take your brain for a run.

James McLandress

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If you’ve ever been lost in wonder at the night sky you must have asked yourself the most basic of all questions… Where did it all come from? How did it begin? Does it end? If it does, what’s on the...


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