{"id":3664,"date":"2010-01-12T08:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2010-01-12T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:47:13","slug":"from-eternity-to-here-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/from-eternity-to-here-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"From Eternity to Here: Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised, we’re going to have a book club to talk about From Eternity to Here<\/em><\/a>. Roughly speaking, every Tuesday I’ll post about another chapter, and we’ll talk about it. Easy enough, right? (Chapters 4 and 5, about relativity, are pretty short and will be combined into one week.)<\/p>\n

For the most part I won’t be summarizing each chapter — because you’ll all have read the book, so that would be boring. Instead, I want to give some behind-the-scenes insight about what was going through my mind when I put each chapter together — a little exclusive for readers of the blog. Of course, in the comments I hope we can discuss the substance of the chapters in as much detail as we like. I’m going to try to participate actively in all the discussions, so I hope to answer questions when I can — and certainly expect to learn something myself along the way.<\/p>\n

The book is divided into four parts: an overview, spacetime and relativity, entropy and the Second Law, and a discussion of how it all fits into cosmology. You can find a more detailed table of contents here<\/a>, and here is the prologue<\/a> to get you in the mood. Part Three is definitely the high point of the book, so be sure to stick around for that.<\/p>\n

So see you next Tuesday! Get reading!<\/p>\n

Part One: Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n