Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth - Brossura

Baggott, Jim

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ISBN 10: 1605985740 ISBN 13: 9781605985749

Casa editrice: Pegasus Books, 2014

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pegasus Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1605985740
• ISBN 13: 9781605985749
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 338