Bedeviled: a shadow history of demons in science
"Thought experiments have long been a vital part of the creative, intellectual process in modern science-and, by extension, so have "demons." Demons are hypothetical beings imagined by scientists to perform specific roles within thought experiments-embodying special powers or abilitie...
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| Summary: | "Thought experiments have long been a vital part of the creative, intellectual process in modern science-and, by extension, so have "demons." Demons are hypothetical beings imagined by scientists to perform specific roles within thought experiments-embodying special powers or abilities and personifying tough intellectual challenges or highlighting apparent paradoxes. They are used as a way of exploring what would happen if one fiddled with or upset the sturdiest of physical laws, or experimented with physical or natural processes or phenomena in ways that the scientist imagining them otherwise could not. As such, they help clarify the limits of what is possible in the physical world, or show weaknesses in our understanding of an observable phenomenon, or highlight cracks in a hypothesis or theory. Unencumbered by the physicality of our concrete world, demons are thus useful to scientists in their intellectual quest to understand how nature works, and in the creative exploration of the frontiers of science"-- |
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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
DESCARTES S EVIL
GENIUS
LAPLACE S INTELLIGENCE
MAXWELL S
DEMON
BROWNIAN
MOTION
DEMONS
EINSTEIN S
GHOSTS
QUANTUM
DEMONS
CYBERNETIC
METASTABLE
DEMONS
COMPUTER
DAEMONS
BIOLOGY S
DEMONS
DEMONS
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THE
GLOBAL ECONOMY
CONCLUSION:
THE
AUDACITY
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CONTENTS
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
1O.
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
DESCARTES'S EVIL
GENIUS
LAPLACE'S INTELLIGENCE
MAXWELL'S
DEMON
BROWNIAN
MOTION
DEMONS
EINSTEIN'S
GHOSTS
QUANTUM
DEMONS
CYBERNETIC
METASTABLE
DEMONS
COMPUTER
DAEMONS
BIOLOGY'S
DEMONS
DEMONS
IN
THE
GLOBAL ECONOMY
CONCLUSION:
THE
AUDACITY
OF
OUR
IMAGINATION
POSTSCRIPT:
PHILOSOPHICAL
CONSIDERATIONS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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