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Albert Einstein once wrote: "The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction." Remarkably, in this book we arrive at those universal axioms from which universal science can be built up by pure deduction.Within the prevailing paradigm of science - the mathematical philosophy of nature - we show it is not possible to unify science. To overcome this limitation we introduce a new, more general paradigm. Since the new paradigm is a generalisation of the mathematical philosophy of nature, we are able to retain the mathematical knowledge built up within the prevailing paradigm.Within the new paradigm we introduce four empirical universal axioms, from which we deduce that it is not possible to mathematically unify the two fundamental theories of physics - quantum theory and general relativity. Instead, from the universal axioms we logically deduce the first symmetry of nature, the first invariance of nature, the universal arrow of time, the universal laws of nature, and the three universal dynamic theories of nature - quantum theory, general relativity and universal evolution. The first symmetry of nature and first invariance of nature arise from the constancy of the universal laws of nature not only being a symmetry, but a unifying symmetry.The biological view of universal evolution provides a new theory of biological evolution that replaces what we show is the deficient neo-Darwinian synthesis. In a similar way, theories of evolution in all the sciences are based on their respective views of universal evolution. From the universal axioms, we deduce the universal features of nature thereby unifying physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, economics and all of science.This book is written for scientifically-inclined general readers, teachers, students, scientists, philosophers, physicists, chemists, biologists, psychologists, sociologists, and economists.
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Spencer Scoular is a private scientist-philosopher who earns his way as a management consultant. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
By being outside of the sociological forces and funding pressures of normal science, Spencer has had the freedom to generalise the current mathematical paradigm of science. In particular, he provides a more general qualitative paradigm of science, of which the current quantitative paradigm of science is a special case.
He is specially qualified to consider how science can represent qualitative nature, since his Cambridge PhD was on the related subject of how various (quantitative) digital sampling strategies can uniquely represent classes of (qualitative) analogue signals.
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By being outside of the sociological forces and funding pressures of normal science, Spencer has had the freedom to generalise the current mathematical paradigm of science. In particular, he provides a more general qualitative paradigm of science, of which the current quantitative paradigm of science is a special case.
He is specially qualified to consider how science can represent qualitative nature, since his Cambridge PhD was on the related subject of how various (quantitative) digital sampling strategies can uniquely represent classes of (qualitative) analogue signals.
This erudite and engrossing journey through the modern sciences approaches the elusive “unified theory” By Michelle Anne Schingler on September 13, 2013 Spencer Scoular, a consultant who holds a PhD from Cambridge, moves to flesh out the incomplete, mathematically based frameworks within which modern sciences have attempted, often not in concert with one another, to explain the universe. Scoular resists the notion that scientists should entertain niche interests and offers this more comprehensive basis for an empirically based worldview. The project stands to become a center of impassioned discussion among scholars and a source of intrigue for those outside of scientific fields. Scoular’s beginning pages show that the sciences moved away from their earliest impulses to describe existence in a holistic manner and instead ventured in the direction of explaining pieces of the whole. However, if guided by a central set of principles descriptive of all existence, the sciences, Scoular believes, can avoid absorption in the minutia and return to the business of usefully and comprehensively explaining what is. The author presents a set of axioms—which he calls universal, verifiable principles—that could run beneath all unified scientific inquiry. Included are assertions that the universe is real but has not always been, and that it is guided by certain laws and constants, among them light speed and gravity. Scoular’s principles grapple only with what can be known, eschewing the types of theorizing which become mere esoteric exercises... Later chapters do the same kind of work, amalgamizing theories of biology, psychology, and economics... Ubiquitous citations of and quotations from scholars ranging from the beloved to the lesser known will persuade even those outside of the sciences that Scoular is amply knowledgeable. In Search of Unity is challenging, but a pleasure to read.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1490548343
- ISBN 13 9781490548340
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages328
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