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What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme ...
13. Sept. 2016 · In this provocative book, he argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even essential in physics, may be leading today's researchers astray in three of the field's most important areas—string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology.
- Roger Penrose
- September 13, 2016
- 2016
In the case of quantum mechanics, its stunning success in explaining the atomic universe has led to an uncritical faith that it must also apply to reasonably massive objects, and Penrose responds by suggesting possible changes in quantum theory.
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe | Penrose, Roger | ISBN: 9780691178530 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
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Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691178530. Pages: 520. Quantity. Add to wishlist. Available Formats. The MIT Press Bookstore. 1 on hand, as of Apr 18 9:51am. (PHYS) On Our Shelves Now. Description. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theory.
- Roger Penrose
- September 05, 2017
5. Sept. 2017 · Roger Penrose. Princeton University Press, Sep 5, 2017 - Science - 520 pages. One of the world's leading physicists questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including...
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe is a book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, released in September 2016. The book is based on his lectures that he gave at Princeton University in 2003. [1] [2] [3] Content.
