From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll

Narrator Erik Synnestvedt

Time moves forward, not backward---everyone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands
of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway
to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too.

In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely
from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions before the Big Bang itself -
a period of modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though,
physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child's
play. Carroll's scenario is not only elegant, it's laid out in the same easy-to-understand
language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on
the Net.

From Eternity to Here uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how
properties of space-time before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in
our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family
of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the
opposite direction. It's an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large
scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like Elegant Universe
and A Brief History of Time.

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