The Large, the Small and the Human Mind - Softcover

Roger Penrose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965837610 ISBN 13: 9780965837613

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

In this book, Roger Penrose presents a masterly summary of those areas of physics in which he feels there are major unsolved problems. These ideas are then challenged by three distinguished experts from different backgrounds - Abner Shimony and Nancy Cartwright as Philosophers of science and Stephen Hawking as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Finally, Roger Penrose responds to their thought-provoking criticisms. This paperback edition has been updated to include a striking and easily accessible example of Gödel's theorem, and a ground-breaking proposal for a physical experiment designed to test some of Penrose's most novel ideas about quantum mechanics. Penrose's enthusiasm, insight and good humor shine through this accessible, illuminating, and brilliant account of 21st-century theoretical physics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0965837610
• ISBN 13: 9780965837613
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 185
• Editor: Malcolm Longair