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tenisonpurple's review
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Mostly clearly explained view of six numbers and how they affect our universe and the existence of sufficient complexity for the development of life. He lost me on some bits on relativity - words made sense but sentences didn’t mean a thing. But overall interesting
lordofthemoon's review
4.0
Subtitled The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe, this pop science book, written by the astronomer royal, discusses six cosmological constants that define the size, shape and structure of the universe.
An interesting book, but one that didn't really teach me that much that I didn't already know. The most interesting thing was the stress on how if any of these numbers were very slightly different, they would have resulted in a universe that would be unsuitable for life. Rees deliberately avoids the question of why this 'fine tuning' exists until the final chapter and even then, he remains fairly neutral on the matter just outlining the possibilities, including that of a creator.
An interesting book, but one that didn't really teach me that much that I didn't already know. The most interesting thing was the stress on how if any of these numbers were very slightly different, they would have resulted in a universe that would be unsuitable for life. Rees deliberately avoids the question of why this 'fine tuning' exists until the final chapter and even then, he remains fairly neutral on the matter just outlining the possibilities, including that of a creator.
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