Bantam Dell has announced that Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Stephen Hawking will publish another book about “the ultimate mysteries of the universe” (via GalleyCat). Hawking is something of a celebrity scientist as a result of his mega-bestselling book A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. The new book will be titled The Grand Design and be published Sept. 7.
In a review of The Universe in a Nutshell, Hawking’s follow-up to A Brief History of Time, Michael Sims wrote that the “fun and accessible” book includes “such challenging topics as time travel, the reconciliation of Einsteinian relativity and quantum theory, and even the frightening possibilities in the inevitable co-evolution of biological and technological life.”
In The Grand Design, you can expect to learn about “a single theory that can describe and explain all the forces of nature.” Sounds intriguing—will you look for this book?
For more on Hawking, watch his TED talk on “some Big Questions about our universe.”
n “The Grand Design” Stephen Hawking postulates that the M-theory may be the Holy Grail of physics…the Grand Unified Theory which Einstein had tried to formulate and later abandoned. It expands on quantum mechanics and string theory.
In my e-book on comparative mysticism is a quote by Albert Einstein: “…most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and most radiant beauty – which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive form – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all religion.”
Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity is probably the best known scientific equation. I revised it to help better understand the relationship between divine Essence (Spirit), matter (mass/energy: visible/dark) and consciousness (fx raised to its greatest power). Unlike the speed of light, which is a constant, there are no exact measurements for consciousness. In this hypothetical formula, basic consciousness may be of insects, to the second power of animals and to the third power the rational mind of humans. The fourth power is suprarational consciousness of mystics, when they intuit the divine essence in perceived matter. This was a convenient analogy, but there cannot be a divine formula.
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