God Problem, The: How a Godless Cosmos Creates

God’s war crimes, Aristotle’s sneaky tricks, Einstein’s pajamas, Information Theory’s blind spot, Stephen Wolfram’s New Kind of Science, and six monkeys at six typewriters getting it wrong. What do these have to do with the birth of a universe and with your need for meaning? Everything, as you’re about to see.How does the cosmos do something it has long been thought that only gods could achieve? How does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms and unbelievable new powers without a Creator? How does the cosmos create? That’s the central question of The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates.The God Problem finds clues in strange places. Why a does not equal a. Why one plus one does not equal two. How the Greeks used kickballs to reinvent the universe. And the reason that Polish-born Benoit Mandelbrot—the father of fractal geometry—rebelled against his uncle.In The God Problem you’ll take a scientific expedition into the secret heart of a cosmos you’ve never seen. Not just any cosmos. An electrifyingly inventive cosmos. An obsessive-compulsive cosmos. A driven, ambitious cosmos. A cosmos of colossal shocks. A cosmos of screaming, stunning surprise. A cosmos that breaks five of science’s most sacred laws. Yes, five.Howard Bloom (Brooklyn, NY) has been called “the Darwin, Newton, Einstein, and Freud of the 21st century” and “the next Stephen Hawking.” He is the author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (“mesmerizing”—The Washington Post); Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (“reassuring and sobering”—The New Yorker); and The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism (“impressive, stimulating, and tremendously enjoyable.”—James Fallows, National Correspondent, the Atlantic Monthly). A recent visiting scholar at New York University, Bloom is the founder of the International Paleopsychology Project, founder of the Space Development Steering Committee (a group that includes astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell), and a founding board member of the Epic of Evolution Society. He has appeared on Good Morning America, the CBS Morning News, CBS Nightwatch, CNN, the BBC, and over one hundred other media outlets.