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Science a la Mode : Physical Fashions and Fictions
These iconoclastic and witty essays are about what happens when scientists jump on band-wagons. Tony Rothman applies creative skepticism to contemporary fashions in science, including the ""standard model"" Big Bang theory, geodesic domes, the concept of nuclear winter, and socio...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; 1. The Garden of Cosmological Delights (with G.F.R. Ellis); 2. Metaflation? (with G.F.R. Ellis); 3. Geodesics, Domes, and Spacetime; 4. The Evolution of Entropy; 5. A Memoir of Nuclear Winter; 6. Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois; Notes; Index.