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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophydi Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Lee Smolin
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A meaty, reinforcing follow-up to physicist Smolin's _Time Reborn_, which took issue with such ideas as the contention that time is illusory, the multiverse conception, the immutability of physical laws, and the alleged apotheosis of mathematics. Philosopher Unger's portion (~70%) of this new book is dry, syntactically ponderous, and repetitious. Smolin's portion (~30%) is easier to read (although it does include some very new and unfamiliar ideas) but marred by the relentless use of "which" in place of "that" and an inexcusable, wholesale misnumbering of the many literature references. Substance-wise, well worth reading even though there are many things one could disagree with. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. Then we can hope to explain them. The revolution that Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin propose relies on three central ideas. There is only one universe at a time. Time is real: everything in the structure and regularities of nature changes sooner or later. Mathematics, which has trouble with time, is not the oracle of nature and the prophet of science; it is simply a tool with great power and immense limitations. The argument is readily accessible to non-scientists as well as to the physicists and cosmologists whom it challenges. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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