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From Big Bang to Upanishads and The End of Time, B. Greene tries to cover a lot.
Understandably, he does a great job explaining the physical and cosmological scientific thoughts and hypothesis compared to humanities quest for meaning.
I admired his way of combining these two and also realized how far we came in terms of our understanding of physics and cosmology in the last decades.
In the spectrum of spiritually/meaning to physics, particles, reductionism he does a great job to strike a balance most of the time.
The potential downside is that the reader who expects more or less to be on one side of this spectrum will probably be disappointed.
I was occasionally. But loved the book in general.
I love that the book reminded me the fact that there's no good reason for us to take ourselves so seriously, given how small we (as humanity or even life in general) are in the cosmological time scale.
Also it was fun to listened to the audio version from B. Greene's own voice.