The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

An accessible, illuminating and stimulating introduction to Roger Penrose's vision of theoretical physics for the 21st century. Includes incisive contributions from Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking. This paperback edition has been updated to include previously unpublished material with two ground-breaking developments in the debate.

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In this book, Roger Penrose presents a masterly summary of those areas of physics in which he feels there are major unsolved problems. These ideas are then challenged by three distinguished experts from different backgrounds - Abner Shimony and Nancy Cartwright as Philosophers of science and Stephen Hawking as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Finally, Roger Penrose responds to their thought-provoking criticisms. This paperback edition has been updated to include a striking and easily accessible example of Gödel's theorem, and a ground-breaking proposal for a physical experiment designed to test some of Penrose's most novel ideas about quantum mechanics. Penrose's enthusiasm, insight and good humour shine through this accessible, illuminating, and brilliant account of 21st-century theoretical physics.