Impossibility :: the limits of science and the science of limits /
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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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages :) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058513362X 9780585133621 9780195351385 019535138X |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Impossibility : |b the limits of science and the science of limits / |c John D. Barrow. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The art of the impossible -- |t The power of negative thinking -- |t Of faces and games -- |t Those for whom all things are possible -- |t Paradox -- |t Visual paradox -- |t Linguistic paradox -- |t Limits to certainty -- |t A cosmic speed limit -- |t The hope of progress -- |t Over the rainbow -- |t The voyage to Polynesia via Telegraph Avenue -- |t Progress and prejudice -- |t The big idea of unlimited knowledge -- |t Negativism -- |t Some nineteenth-century ideas of the impossible -- |t Back to the future -- |t What do we mean by the limits of science? -- |t Possible futures -- |t Higgledy-piggledyology -- |t Selective and absolute limits -- |t Will we be builders or surgeons? -- |t The futures market -- |t How many discoveries are there still to be made? -- |t Being human -- |t What are minds for? -- |t Counting on words -- |t Modern art and the death of a culture -- |t Complexity matching: climbing Mount Improbable -- |t Intractability -- |t The frontier spirit -- |t The end of diversity -- |t Does science always bring about its own demise? -- |t Death and the death of science -- |t The psychology of limits -- |t Technological limits -- |t Is the Universe economically viable? -- |t Why we are where we are -- |t Some consequences of size -- |t The forces of Nature -- |t Manipulating the Universe -- |t Criticality: the riddle of the sands -- |t Demons: counting the cost -- |t Two types of future -- |t Is technological progress inevitable (or always desirable)?--a fable -- |t Cosmological limits -- |t The last horizon -- |t Inflation--still crazy after all these years -- |t Chaotic inflation -- |t Is the Universe open or closed? -- |t Eternal inflation. |
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| contents | 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. |
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| spelling | Barrow, John D., 1952-2020. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJghkQhHwttT88xFq3GmBP Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits / John D. Barrow. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages :) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file 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. Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record. English. Science Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582 Limit (Logic) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93000375 Gödel's theorem. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055601 Limite (Logique) Théorème de Gödel. SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh Gödel's theorem fast Limit (Logic) fast Science Philosophy fast Unmöglichkeit gnd Wissenschaft gnd Natuurwetenschappen. gtt Onmogelijkheid. gtt Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis. idsbb Wissenschaftstheorie. idsbb Naturwissenschaften Philosophie. idsbb Philosophie Naturwissenschaften. idsbb Erkenntnistheorie. idszbz Naturwissenschaften. idszbz Philosophie. idszbz Unmöglichkeit Wissenschaft has work: Impossibility (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCYPTvQwFDxVvXbTKFRkPMd https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Barrow, John D., 1952- Impossibility. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 0198518900 (DLC) 97035202 (OCoLC)37705261 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=12401 Volltext CBO01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=12401 Volltext FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=335662 Volltext CBO01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=335662 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Barrow, John D., 1952-2020 Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits / 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. Science Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582 Limit (Logic) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93000375 Gödel's theorem. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055601 Limite (Logique) Théorème de Gödel. SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh Gödel's theorem fast Limit (Logic) fast Science Philosophy fast Unmöglichkeit gnd Wissenschaft gnd Natuurwetenschappen. gtt Onmogelijkheid. gtt Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis. idsbb Wissenschaftstheorie. idsbb Naturwissenschaften Philosophie. idsbb Philosophie Naturwissenschaften. idsbb Erkenntnistheorie. idszbz Naturwissenschaften. idszbz Philosophie. idszbz |
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| title | Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits / |
| title_alt | 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. |
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| title_full | Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits / John D. Barrow. |
| title_fullStr | Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits / John D. Barrow. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits / John D. Barrow. |
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| topic | Science Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582 Limit (Logic) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93000375 Gödel's theorem. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055601 Limite (Logique) Théorème de Gödel. SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh Gödel's theorem fast Limit (Logic) fast Science Philosophy fast Unmöglichkeit gnd Wissenschaft gnd Natuurwetenschappen. gtt Onmogelijkheid. gtt Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis. idsbb Wissenschaftstheorie. idsbb Naturwissenschaften Philosophie. idsbb Philosophie Naturwissenschaften. idsbb Erkenntnistheorie. idszbz Naturwissenschaften. idszbz Philosophie. idszbz |
| topic_facet | Science Philosophy. Limit (Logic) Gödel's theorem. Limite (Logique) Théorème de Gödel. SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects. Gödel's theorem Science Philosophy Unmöglichkeit Wissenschaft Natuurwetenschappen. Onmogelijkheid. Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis. Wissenschaftstheorie. Naturwissenschaften Philosophie. Philosophie Naturwissenschaften. Erkenntnistheorie. Naturwissenschaften. Philosophie. |
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