Theories for Everything

Theories for Everything
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 0792239121
ISBN-13 : 9780792239123
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Theories for Everything by : John Langone

Download or read book Theories for Everything written by John Langone and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides behind-the-scenes accounts of some of history's greatest science discoveries.

New Theories of Everything

New Theories of Everything
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780199548170
ISBN-13 : 019954817X
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis New Theories of Everything by : John D. Barrow

Download or read book New Theories of Everything written by John D. Barrow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmology & the universe.

This Explains Everything

This Explains Everything
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 429
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ISBN-10 : 9780062230188
ISBN-13 : 0062230182
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis This Explains Everything by : John Brockman

Download or read book This Explains Everything written by John Brockman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world. What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work. Jared Diamond on biological electricity • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on positive stress • Steven Pinker on the deep genetic roots of human conflict • Richard Dawkins on pattern recognition • Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on simplicity • Lisa Randall on the Higgs mechanism • BRIAN Eno on the limits of intuition • Richard Thaler on the power of commitment • V. S. Ramachandran on the "neural code" of consciousness • Nobel Prize winner ERIC KANDEL on the power of psychotherapy • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on "Lord Acton's Dictum" • Lawrence M. Krauss on the unification of electricity and magnetism • plus contributions by Martin J. Rees • Kevin Kelly • Clay Shirky • Daniel C. Dennett • Sherry Turkle • Philip Zimbardo • Lee Smolin • Rebecca Newberger Goldstein • Seth Lloyd • Stewart Brand • George Dyson • Matt Ridley

3 Theories of Everything

3 Theories of Everything
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Publisher : Ellis Potter
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : 0983276854
ISBN-13 : 9780983276852
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Book Synopsis 3 Theories of Everything by : Ellis Potter

Download or read book 3 Theories of Everything written by Ellis Potter and published by Ellis Potter. This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this simple volume, international lecturer Potter explores three major world views that propose radically different answers to eternal questions. In clear and compelling language, he shows that the three world views and the unique hope that each offers to humanity have profoundly different consequences for how people see everyday reality and the ultimate purpose of their lives.

Theories of Everything

Theories of Everything
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9781582344232
ISBN-13 : 158234423X
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Theories of Everything by : Roz Chast

Download or read book Theories of Everything written by Roz Chast and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comprehensive book of cartoons from the beloved New Yorker cartoonist.--From publisher description.

Not Even Wrong

Not Even Wrong
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780465003631
ISBN-13 : 046500363X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Not Even Wrong by : Peter Woit

Download or read book Not Even Wrong written by Peter Woit and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At what point does theory depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble something like aesthetic speculation, or even theology? The legendary physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a phrase for such ideas: He would describe them as "not even wrong," meaning that they were so incomplete that they could not even be used to make predictions to compare with observations to see whether they were wrong or not. In Peter Woit's view, superstring theory is just such an idea. In Not Even Wrong , he shows that what many physicists call superstring "theory" is not a theory at all. It makes no predictions, even wrong ones, and this very lack of falsifiability is what has allowed the subject to survive and flourish. Not Even Wrong explains why the mathematical conditions for progress in physics are entirely absent from superstring theory today and shows that judgments about scientific statements, which should be based on the logical consistency of argument and experimental evidence, are instead based on the eminence of those claiming to know the truth. In the face of many books from enthusiasts for string theory, this book presents the other side of the story.

Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile

Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile
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Publisher : Profile Books
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781782833093
ISBN-13 : 1782833099
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile by : Frank Close

Download or read book Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile written by Frank Close and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physicist Frank Close takes the reader to the frontiers of science in a vividly told investigation of revolutionary science and enterprise from the seventeenth century to the present. He looks at what has been meant by theories of everything, explores the scientific breakthroughs they have allowed, and shows the far-reaching effects they have had on crucial aspects of life and belief. Theories of everything, he argues, can be described as those which draw on all relevant branches of knowledge to explain everything known about the universe. Such accounts may reign supreme for centuries. Then, often as a result of the advances they themselves have enabled, a new discovery is made which the current theory cannot explain. A new theory is needed which inspiration, sometimes, supplies. Moving from Isaac Newton's work on gravity and motion in the seventeenth century to thermodynamics and James Clerk Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism in the nineteenth to Max Planck's and Paul Dirac's quantum physics in the twentieth, Professor Close turns finally to contemporary physics and the power and limitations of the current theory of everything. The cycle in which one theory of everything is first challenged and then replaced by another is continuing right now.