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Seeking Ultimates: An Intuitive Guide to Physics
Peter Theodore Landsberg
ISBN 13: 9780750306577
Publisher: Inst of Physics Pub Inc
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover
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This is a book filled with fundamental questions. The author takes us on a journey which explores the limits of our scientific knowledge, some of the gaps, and some of the discoveries yet to be made. He discusses complex ideas to question the validity of the models we use to define physical reality. He uses examples from everyday life to ask: "What is energy?" and "Why is the periodic table arranged in such as way?" He examines our theories of entropy, chaos, quantum theory and cosmology for completeness. Readers are then challenged to re-assess their beliefs in unarguable truths presented by mathematical theorems and the more philosophical issues of theology and happiness. Using careful reference to historical figures such as Mendeleev and Newton, thought-provoking illustrations, backed up by a lucid narrative, this book will encourage you to consider your scientific beliefs in a new light. Peter Landsberg argues intelligently that our theories of science are incomplete. An accessible, thought-provoking, account for all interested in science and philosophy. Have we exhausted the limits of our scientific knowledge?
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