In this autobiographical account, lastrophysicien out his vision of the universe, given the state of science. It is in the silence of infinite space that we perceive his secret melody and this is through the beauty of mathematical language that we can decode it, to realize that dust of stars, this is where we come from. Yet the physical nexplique not all. Only 3.5 of the total mass of the universe is detectable, the remaining 96.5%, dark energy and exotic material, it is unclear what it comes, from the fact of what the cause of the expansion of the universe laccélération . Universe of Newton and The place where everything is determined has come and gone. Quantum mechanics and chaos theory introduced the concepts of uncertainty, indeterminacy and unpredictability in science. Even more significant, Gödel's theorem shows quon can not claim that a system is consistent and not contradictory only on the basis of the axioms contained in this system except out of the system and impose one or more axioms that are outside it. In other words, the system is incomplete in itself, which is the theorem the "incompleteness theorem." Force is then to find the limits of science. As far as his eyes can bear, she can not see "the main thing, which is invisible to the eye," as so aptly fox to the Little Prince of Saint-Saint-Exupéry. The limits of science forces us to admit that there are two levels of reality: the reality of the physical world accessible to scientific linvestigation, and that of the Platonic world of ideas, eternal and unchanging, accessible only to immortal soul because she remembers yet its origin. Spinoza said that God (or the universe if one wants) has an infinitude of attributes and that the man, limited in its attributes, and thus in his understanding, can not lappréhender by lintuition. Lintuition Spinoza, this is the inner gaze of the Buddhist monk in his investigation of reality. Interviews with the Buddhist Mathieu Ricard, author withdraws that it is a deep convergence between conception of reality, especially that of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the three basic concepts of Buddhism, linterdépendance, emptiness and limpermanence. The Buddhist concept of emptiness finds its scientific equivalent in the dual nature of light and quantum mechanics in: both are both wave and particle. The Buddhist concept of impermanence echoes the concept of an evolving world. The respective explanations of reality in Buddhism and science are complementary. But what is the purpose of all this? Leibniz wondered why there is something instead of nothing. Referring to Jacques Monod, author think we have the choice between "chance and necessity". He does not hide his allergy to chance, because determinism implies that it means the denial of free will. He observes dailleurs well that if free will not nexistait, how could doubt his own existence? Lanthropie strong supporter of the theory, he notes that "our universe is unique and so accurate setting for the appearance of an observer it may be the only matter of chance but is the expression of a principle subtle organizer manifested in the laws of nature ", so this is no surprise that he rejects the theory of parallel universes" that our world would only be a small bubble among an infinite number of other bubbles in a meta-universe " . You can follow or not to follow in his bet. Its merit is above all known to have the problem clearly.
