@article{Williams III_2021, title={Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene}, volume={35}, url={https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/2079}, DOI={10.31275/20212079}, abstractNote={<p>Brian Greene’s <em>Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe</em>, as the title suggests, is an ambitious work.&nbsp; Greene takes the reader on a vast tour which begins with the birth of the universe and ends with its (likely) dissolution.&nbsp; The staggering timescale that Greene considers here is perhaps unique among science books aimed at a wide audience.&nbsp; And Greene uses the backdrop of the universe’s emergence and demise as an effective platform to explore human meaning in a relatively wide range of inquiry.&nbsp; These subjects include consciousness, religion, language, and the arts.&nbsp; It appears significant for Greene that these, as important as they are, all play out in a relatively brief time in the context of the evolution and demise of the universe.&nbsp; At the end of the day, Greene submits that life is likely ephemeral.&nbsp; He provides a quote from Nabokov that characterizes human life as a “brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” (p.13)&nbsp;</p&gt;}, number={3}, journal={Journal of Scientific Exploration}, author={Williams III, George Robert}, year={2021}, month={Sep.}, pages={667-675} }