The End of Discovery
Are we approaching the boundaries of the knowable?
(Sprache: Englisch)
Fundamental science will one day come to an end, argues Russell Stannard. Ultimately there will be experiments too vast to finance, areas of knowledge the human brain cannot comprehend, evidence that forever eludes us. His book explores the likely...
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Fundamental science will one day come to an end, argues Russell Stannard. Ultimately there will be experiments too vast to finance, areas of knowledge the human brain cannot comprehend, evidence that forever eludes us. His book explores the likely boundaries of our quest to understand the nature of time, matter, consciousness, and the universe.
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It is generally thought that science, by its very nature, must always progress. But this is not so. One day, fundamental science will come to an end. Not when we have discovered everything, but when we have discovered whatever is open to us to understand - which is not the same thing.Limitations as to what the human brain can comprehend, together with practical considerations to do with the need for ever more elaborate and expensive equipment, are likely to ensure that our knowledge will remain for ever incomplete. A further indication that the world will ultimately retain some of its mystery is suggested by evidence that in certain directions, scientific enquiry might already have come up against the boundaries of the knowable.
Author and broadcaster Russell Stannard, himself a high-energy physicist and former Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Open University, introduces the general reader to the deepest questions facing us today - questions to do with consciousness, free will, the nature of space, time, and matter, the existence of extraterrestrial life, and why there should be a world at all. In doing so, he speculates as to whether some of these questions will never be answered.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The End of Discovery “
Introduction; 1: Brain and consciousness; 2: Creation of the cosmos; 3: The laws of nature; 4: The anthropic principle; 5: The size of the cosmos; 6: Extraterrestrial life; 7: The nature of space; 8: Space in relation to time; 9: The nature of time; 10: High energy physics; 11: The quantum world; 12: Quantum gravity and string theory; 13: Concluding remarks
Autoren-Porträt von Russell Stannard
Russell Stannard ist ein international anerkannter Professor für Physik an der englischen Universität in Milton Keynes. Er sagt: "Meine Bücher sollen jungen Lesern die wichtigsten Dinge nahebringen - Einsteins Relativitätstheorie und den Sinn des Lebens. Gleichzeitig versuche ich zu unterhalten." Das Geheimnis seines Erfolges liegt vielleicht darin, dass er die Bücher nicht alleine schreibt, sondern die erste Version Schülern zum Testen gibt. Sie stellen dann dazu Fragen und haben Einwände, die Stannard bei der endgültigen Fassung des Buches berücksichtigt. Russell Stannard ist verheiratet und hat sieben Kinder vier eigene und drei, die er und seine Frau adoptiert haben.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Russell Stannard
- 2010, 240 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 14,8 x 22,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199585245
- ISBN-13: 9780199585243
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The End of Discovery “
Lucid and provocative, it is a very polite corrective to both superstitions of the layman and the triumphalism of the experts. New Statesman A lucid tour. Simon Mitton, THES Stannard takes readers on a tour of some of the deepest questions facing science. The Independent
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