Farewell to Reality - Jim Baggott

Farewell to Reality

How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth

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Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2014
Pegasus Books (Verlag)
978-1-60598-574-9 (ISBN)
20,95 inkl. MwSt
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From acclaimed science author Jim Baggott, a pointed critique of modern theoretical physics.
In this stunning new volume, Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: super-symmetric particles, superstrings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. These theories are not only untrue, it is not even science. It is fairy-tale physics: fantastical, bizarre and often outrageous, perhaps even confidence-trickery. This book provides a much-needed antidote. Informed, comprehensive, and balanced, it offers lay readers the latest ideas about the nature of physical reality while clearly distinguishing between fact and fantasy. With its engaging portraits of many central figures of modern physics, including Paul Davies, John Barrow, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, and Leonard Susskind, it promises to be essential reading for all readers interested in what we know and don't know about the nature of the universe and reality itself.

Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer. A former academic chemist, he maintains a broad interest in science, philosophy, and history, and writes on these subjects for New Scientist and other journals. His books have been widely acclaimed and include A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Pegasus, 2006), The First War of Physics (Pegasus, 2010), The Meaning of Quantum Physics (Oxford, 1992), and Beyond Measure Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory (Oxford, 2004). He lives in England.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.7.2014
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 208 mm
Gewicht 307 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Quantenphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Relativitätstheorie
ISBN-10 1-60598-574-0 / 1605985740
ISBN-13 978-1-60598-574-9 / 9781605985749
Zustand Neuware
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