Fashion, faith and fantasy in the new physics of the universe /

Fashion, faith and fantasy in the new physics of the universe /

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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...

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Main Author: Penrose, Roger (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Princeton, NJ : [2016]
Princeton, New Jersey : [2016]
Subjects:
Cosmology
Physics > Philosophy
Physics > Social aspects
Physics
Quantum theory
Quantum theory > Social aspects
String models
Kosmologie
Physik
Quantentheorie
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Social aspects
Stringtheorie
2020 Nobel Prize in physics
2020 Nobel laureates in physics
2020 Nobel laureates
Albert Einstein
Andrea Ghez
Einstein
Reinhard Genzel
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Stockholm
black holes
general relativity
general theory of relativity
relativity
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