Impossibility: the limits of science and the science of limits
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1. Verfasser: Barrow, John D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index
The art of the impossible -- - The power of negative thinking -- - Of faces and games -- - Those for whom all things are possible -- - Paradox -- - Visual paradox -- - Linguistic paradox -- - Limits to certainty -- - A cosmic speed limit -- - The hope of progress -- - Over the rainbow -- - The voyage to Polynesia via Telegraph Avenue -- - Progress and prejudice -- - The big idea of unlimited knowledge -- - Negativism -- - Some nineteenth-century ideas of the impossible -- - Back to the future -- - What do we mean by the limits of science? -- - Possible futures -- - Higgledy-piggledyology -- - Selective and absolute limits -- - Will we be builders or surgeons? -- - The futures market -- - How many discoveries are there still to be made? -- - Being human -- - What are minds for? -- - Counting on words -- - Modern art and the death of a culture -- - Complexity matching: climbing Mount Improbable -- - Intractability -- - The frontier spirit -- - The end of diversity -- - Does science always bring about its own demise? -- - Death and the death of science -- - The psychology of limits -- - Technological limits -- - Is the Universe economically viable? -- - Why we are where we are -- - Some consequences of size -- - The forces of Nature -- - Manipulating the Universe -- - Criticality: the riddle of the sands -- - Demons: counting the cost -- - Two types of future -- - Is technological progress inevitable (or always desirable)?--a fable -- - Cosmological limits -- - The last horizon -- - Inflation--still crazy after all these years -- - Chaotic inflation -- - Is the Universe open or closed? -- - Eternal inflation
Explores the frontiers of knowledge, discussing the restrictions that may be imposed upon a full understanding of the physical universe by the limits of technology, computers, cost, and complexity; and considering how the mind's awareness of the impossible influences perceptions of reality
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ISBN:0198503784
0198518900
058513362X
9780195130829
9780198503781
9780198518907
9780585133621

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