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Higher speculations : grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology /
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 theo...
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Oxford ; New York :
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2011.
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| 520 | |a 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 atall? Which are the epistemic standards on which an alleged scientific theory of the universe - or the multiverse. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cases from the past. Beginnings of modern science ; A Victorian theory of everything ; Electrodynamics as a world view ; Rationalist cosmologies ; Cosmology and controversy ; The rise and fall of the Bootstrap Programme -- The present scene. Varying constants of nature ; New cyclic models of the universe ; Anthropic science ; The multiverse scenario ; String theory and quantum gravity ; Astrobiology and physical eschatology ; Summary : final theories and epistemic shifts. | |
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