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Hour of Our Delight: Cosmic Evolution, Order, and Complexity
Hour of Our Delight Cosmic Evolution Order and Complexity Author:Hubert Reeves Hubert Reeves, one of France's most distinguished researchers and a well-known science writer, offers a unique examination of the evolution of our universe, from the Big Bang through successive stages of rising complexity. Looking to the farthest horizons of our expanding universe, Reeves describes the increasingly organized structure of matter.... more » Our species' climb up the ladder of complexity has produced great art and literature in addition to all the remarkable products of modern technology.
There is also a more sinister progression: our compulsion to build increasingly destructive weapons. The birth of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos is just one point on the macabre spiral. Our intelligence has given us the ability to create and destroy-will our intelligence be the means of defusing the bomb, and dismantling these destructive forces? The author advocates neither blind optimism nor bleak pessimism, but rather hope, and a belief that delight is the antidote to despair.« less