Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science

Andrew Steane is a Professor of Physics at Oxford University. He performed pioneering experiments on the quantum physics of ultra-cold atomic clouds and established the ion trap quantum computing work in Oxford. He discovered quantum error correction and the CSS (Calderbank Shor Steane) codes, is an author of three undergraduate physics textbooks and three science and religion books. He is a recipient of the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics and the Trotter Prize of Texas A&M University.

1: A candid friend
2: What is a quantum field?
3: Quantum fluctuation?
4: The vacuum as a dynamical system
5: The very early Universe
6: Nothing comes of nothing
7: Rubble and randomness
8: What science can and cannot do
9: Science, science fiction and the multiverse
10: Could it simply be?
11: Religious imagery
12: Sinking the selfish gene
13: The magician's box
14: Stepping out
15: Angels with dirty faces
16: Science and sensibility
17: Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
18: Fruit pie
19: Contemporary thought and evolution
20: Brightland
21: Getting past Brightland