Sunday, April 24, 2011

Zero: The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

Summary:
The last section of the book talks about the big bang and is it posible that the universe was really made from this taking place. Einstein later made the conclusion that his equation for general theory of relativity had a specific flaw. He believed that the universe is stable, but his equation presentaed that it was destroyed ad me created over and over again. Albert changed his equation show that it would repersent that everything is balanced and nothing would be destroyed. But later on two enigereers by the name of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson won the Noble Prize for their discovery of the universe having a beginning rather than having a stable and balanced system throughout time. The author says that zero is the secret law for a lot of things humans dont really know or understand, and it was the cause for our beginning and can be the answer for other things. There is no experiment that can completly explain the idea behind the power of zero.
Quote:
"It has always existed in the past, and would always exist "(Seife 200).
Reaction:
I wondered if the universe was made from nothing or a event that occured and caused the formation of things such as planets. The author hear believes zero is what caused everything and that idea for him is true and a dangerous one for some people. The reason for this is beacuse he is saying that something that seems meaningless has a lot of information that we might not understand quiet yet. This shocks me beacuse of all the weird explainations for how our surroundings were made and some of these ideas go through zero.

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