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Books

The Cosmic Blueprint

A review by Desmond Tarrant.

Paul Davies was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He left there for the sunshine of Australia apparently in disgust at the apathy nearly everywhere here towards the things of importance.

His book is a major contribution to a new approach to physics which may well introduce a much more hopeful, positive understanding of our place in the Universe.

To begin with he points out that matter and energy are self-organising, that complexity wherever it is found reveals certain common holistic principles. By holism is understood that the components of a living organism are arranged in a coherent and cooperative fashion as though to a common or agreed plan giving it a discrete identity, the sum being greater than the parts.

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