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Sto caricando le informazioni... 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time (originale 2009; edizione 2008)di Michael Brooks (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book is great, but not for the reasons many reviewers describe. This book takes the reader along a quick trip to cover a number of areas where science is either undergoing a shift or where the phenomenon poses puzzles that are paradoxical. While doing so the book sets an accessible dialogue about how science and knowledge production works. The book is an educational piece for people that are not involved in science or the production of knowledge by experiment. I have not found other books that are as effective at bringing lay insight participation into the process of science. ( ) The title of the book says it all. The author reviewed and discussed a number of areas where science still hasn't progressed far enough to answer all the questions which remain open. Among the areas he discusses are cosmological conundrums, cold fusion possibilities, medical questions involving placebos and homeopathy, and several biological areas. It just goes to prove that the more we learn, the more unknowns we discover. An amazing book about what science should be (and too rarely is) -- the exploration of results that don't make sense, and finding the actual reason why something is the way it is. The author describes some results or unexplained phenomena (ranging from "why does death exist" to the cold fusion experiments to the meaning of free will to whether fundamental constants vary with time...), how people try to explain these, and the problems people have faced with the rest of the scientific establishment when looking for answers.
De auteur, een Britse wetenschapsjournalist, probeert met dit boek een opsomming en uitleg te geven van dertien bijzondere wetenschappelijke mysteries die nog steeds niet volledig zijn opgelost. Onderwerpen zoals koude kernfusie, homeopathie, het heelal en ons leven passeren de revue. Aan de hand van diverse bestaande theorieën op het gebied van de (natuur)wetenschappen en verwijzingen naar grote geleerden uit de geschiedenis wordt aangetoond dat er nog geen eenduidige verklaringen zijn voor bepaalde experimenten en waarnemingen van de wereld om ons heen. Hebben wij mensen überhaupt wel een vrije wil? Wat is precies 'donkere energie'? En is er nu wel of geen overtuigend bewijs dat er 'ooit' leven was op Mars? Deze en vele andere vragen worden beantwoord in dit intrigerende boek. De auteur neemt de lezer mee in een bijzondere reis langs tot op heden onverklaarde raadsels van onze wereld. Hoewel het boek vol staat met specialistische termen, leest het prettig. Je raakt gefascineerd. Het is dan ook een aanrader voor lezers met belangstelling voor de natuurwetenschappen. Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
Based on Michael Brooks's popular article for New Scientist--one of the most forwarded articles in the magazine's online history--13 Things That Don't Make Sense tackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, from the placebo effect to life on Mars, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues will define science in the twenty-first century. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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