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David Lindley

The Dream Universe

How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way

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A vivid and captivating narrative about how modern science broke free of ancient philosophy, and how theoretical physics is returning to its unscientific rootsIn the early seventeenth century Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically changed the framework through which we view the natural world when he asserted that we should base our theory of reality on what we can observe rather than pure thought. In the process, he invented what we would come to call science. This set the stage for all the breakthroughs that followed--from Kepler to Newton to Einstein. But in the early twentieth centu… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-385-54385-9
  • EAN: 9780385543859
  • Produktnummer: 31805106
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.

Über den Autor


DAVID LINDLEY holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Sussex University and has been an editor at Nature, Science, and Science News. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of Uncertainty, The End of Physics, Where Does the Weirdness Go?, The Science of Jurassic Park, Boltzmann's Atom, and Degrees Kelvin. He was also the recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa science writing prize. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

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