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Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology

Helge Kragh
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Description:Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This account presents these theories in their historical contexts, from little known hypotheses from the past to modern developments such as the theory of superstrings, the anthropic principle and ideas of many universes, and uses them to problematize the limits of scientific knowledge. Do claims to theories of everything belong to science at all? Which are the epistemic standards on which an alleged scientific theory of the universe - or the multiverse - is to be judged?Such questions are currently being discussed by physicists and cosmologists, but rarely within a historical perspective. This book argues that these questions have a history and that knowledge of the historical development of 'higher speculations' may inform and qualify the current debate of the nature and limits of scientific explanation.Table of Contents:1. Beginnings of Modern Science2. A Victorian Theory of Everything3. Electrodynamics as a World View4. Rationalist Cosmologies5. Cosmology and Controversy6. The Rise and Fall of the Bootstrap Programme7. Varying Constants of Nature8. New Cyclic Models of The Universe9. The Anthropic Principle10. Multiverse Scenarios11. String Theory and Other Models of Quantum Gravity12. Astrobiology and Physical Eschatology13. Summary: Final Theories and Epistemic ShiftsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology. To get started finding Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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408
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Oxford University Press
Release
2011
ISBN
0199599882

Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology

Helge Kragh
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
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Description: Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This account presents these theories in their historical contexts, from little known hypotheses from the past to modern developments such as the theory of superstrings, the anthropic principle and ideas of many universes, and uses them to problematize the limits of scientific knowledge. Do claims to theories of everything belong to science at all? Which are the epistemic standards on which an alleged scientific theory of the universe - or the multiverse - is to be judged?Such questions are currently being discussed by physicists and cosmologists, but rarely within a historical perspective. This book argues that these questions have a history and that knowledge of the historical development of 'higher speculations' may inform and qualify the current debate of the nature and limits of scientific explanation.Table of Contents:1. Beginnings of Modern Science2. A Victorian Theory of Everything3. Electrodynamics as a World View4. Rationalist Cosmologies5. Cosmology and Controversy6. The Rise and Fall of the Bootstrap Programme7. Varying Constants of Nature8. New Cyclic Models of The Universe9. The Anthropic Principle10. Multiverse Scenarios11. String Theory and Other Models of Quantum Gravity12. Astrobiology and Physical Eschatology13. Summary: Final Theories and Epistemic ShiftsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology. To get started finding Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
408
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Release
2011
ISBN
0199599882

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