Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
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Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This account presents these theories in their historical contexts, from little known hypotheses from the past to modern developments such as the theory
of superstrings, the anthropic principle and ideas of many universes, and uses them to problematize the limits of scientific knowledge. Do claims to theories...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199599882
ISBN13:9780199599882
Release Date:March 2011
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:416 Pages
Weight:2.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"
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