中文名: 大設計
原名: The Grand Design
作者: Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
資源格式: PDF
版本: [英文掃描版]
出版社: Transworld Publishers Ltd
書號: eISBN: 978-0-553-90707-0
發行時間: 2010年09月09日
地區: 美國
語言: 英文
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內容介紹：
英國著名科學家史蒂芬·霍金（Stephen Hawking）日前聲稱，現代物理學發現表明上帝與宇宙的形成沒有任何關係。
霍金和美國物理學家Leonard Mlodinow 於9日推出新著作《大設計》（Great Design）。
這本書的推出將挑戰牛頓的理論“如此精確的宇宙肯定有一位設計者，所有一切不可能從混亂中來”。
霍金和Mlodinow在書中否認了上帝的干預，認為新的科學證明超自然創造理論是多餘的，宇宙的形成只是物理法則的必然產物。
霍金在今天出版的倫敦日報中寫道“因為宇宙有自身的法則，比如萬有引力，宇宙本身可以從無到有，不需要假借外力，包括上帝”。
霍金曾經相信神創論與科學並不矛盾。
他曾在1989年出版的《時間簡史》中表示，並不排除上帝創造宇宙的可能。
“如果我們能發現一套完整的理論，解釋我們與宇宙存在的原因，那將是人類理性的終極勝利，因為屆時我們能夠知道上帝的心意。”霍金在書中表示。
霍金的轉變被很多人認為是對上帝的不敬。
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In "The Grand Design", the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented, in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. "The Grand Design" explains the latest thoughts about model-dependent realism (the idea that there is no one version of reality), and about the multiverse concept of reality in which there are many universes. There are new ideas about the top-down theory of cosmology (the idea that there is no one history of the universe, but that every possible history exists). It concludes with a riveting assessment of m-theory, and discusses whether it is the unified theory Einstein spent a lifetime searching for. This is the first major work in nearly a decade by one of the world's greatest thinkers. A succinct, startling and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, "The Grand Design" is a book that will inform - and provoke - like no other.

目錄:
CONTENTS
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
GLOSSARY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX