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Sto caricando le informazioni... Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (originale 1993; edizione 1994)di Stephen W. Hawking (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaBuchi neri e universi neonati e altri saggi di Stephen W. Hawking (1993)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ó” As other viewers have noted, this is not a book in the same mode of [b:A Brief History of Time|3869|A Brief History of Time|Stephen Hawking|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1333578746s/3869.jpg|2192250]; it is a compendium of assorted essays and interviews and talks from 1976-1992. If you're curious to discover more of Stephen Hawking the man and evolving physicist (essays 1-6, and the interview at the end), this is your book. If you're look for more popular science, this is probably not it--though the science essays (7-13) are still devoid of the complex formulae found in whitepapers. Hawking emerges from these pages a brilliant man who has persevered and maintained a solid character of balance and optimism in the face of detrimental physical limitation. He states that, after diagnosis, he "felt somewhat of a tragic character" and "took to listening to Wagner," but he also clears up the media-marketed rumors that he drank heavily (23). He presents his position that the physicist view of "reality" is really just a mathematical model used to describe observations--further, "[i]t is no good appealing to reality because we don't have a model independent (sic) concept of reality" (44). In one essay, he cleverly refutes the anthropic principle (53); in another he makes clear that physicists, i.e. "the people who actually make the advances," do not think in terms of the categories that historians and philosophers subsequently assign to them (42); and in yet another he says that his desert island music would be Mozart's Requiem and his desert island book would be George Eliot's [b:Middlemarch|19089|Middlemarch|George Eliot|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1386924110s/19089.jpg|1461747] (keeping in mind that Shakespeare and the Bible are implied). My head turned at this book selection. Stephen Hawking reading Middlemarch? Alas, he is a dynamic human being after all. "No estoy de acuerdo con la idea de que el universo constituye un misterio que cabe intuir pero que jamás llegaremos a analizar o a comprender planamente", afirma Hawking en el prólogo. Y al hacerlo, le hace justicia a la revolución cientÃfica iniciada hace casi cuatro siglos por Galileo y desarrollada por Newton. Ellos demostraron que algunas áreas del universo no se cojmportan de manera arbitraria, sino que se hayan gobernadas por leyes matemáticas precisas. TodavÃa es mucho lo que no sabemos o entendemos acerca del universo; pero el gran progreso logrado, sobre todo en los últimos cien años, debe estimularnos a creer que el entendimiento pleno no se encuentra fuera de nuestro alcance. Esta es la firme creencia del autor de estas páginas, convencido de que pugnar con conseguir una teorÃa definitiva acerca del universo es mucho mejor que desesperar de la capacidad de la mente humana. Tal vez no estemos, después de todo, condenados a avanzar a tientas en la oscuridad. Este libro da fe de esta luminosa posibilidad. Tras el exitazo cósmico de "Una breve historia del tiempo", el maestro Hawking empezó a darle a la manivela y produjo unos cuantos libros que, seguro, no estaban previstos inicialmente. Éste es uno de ellos, una colección de breves artÃculos que empiezan con lo biográfico (mi bisabuelo era de Sussex y se arruinó por comprar demasiadas granjas) y terminan con lo filosófico (hablemos de cómo la mecánica cuántica es compatible con el libre albedrÃo) pasando por el camino por bastante fÃsica. Un libro corto, disfrutable y muy bien escrito que se lee mucho más fácilmente que el primero del autor. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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