Higher Speculations
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Author | : Helge Kragh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2011-01-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0199599882 |
A historical account of highly ambitious attempts to understand all of nature in terms of fundamental physics. Presenting old and new 'theories of everything' in their historical contexts, the book discusses the nature and limits of scientific explanation in connection with concrete case studies.
Author | : Helge Kragh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2011-01-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0191003344 |
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 on the nature and limits of scientific explanation.
Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
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Total Pages | : 384 |
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Author | : Algernon Ashburner Osborne |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Speculation |
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Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
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Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Thomas de Quincey |
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Total Pages | : 328 |
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Author | : David Kaeli |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2005-05-26 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1420035150 |
Until now, there were few textbooks that focused on the dynamic subject of speculative execution, a topic that is crucial to the development of high performance computer architectures. Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures describes many recent advances in speculative execution techniques. It covers cutting-edge research
Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
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Total Pages | : 384 |
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Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
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Author | : Hugh Raffles |
Publisher | : Verse Chorus Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2022-04-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1891241745 |
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.