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In search of ultimate reality : inside the cosmologist's abyss.
Using contemporary physics, narrated at a popular science level, Chris Ransford shows why full nothingness-a nothingness within which even the disembodied laws of mathematics would not exist-cannot possibly exist, and what most likely underpins and enables reality.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1-A Question of Ultimate Origins; 2-Don't Bend Reality; 3-Which Ultimate Reality?; Mathematics?; In a Finite Universe; Other Contenders; Space?; Time?; Relativity?; Life?; Mindstuff?; Other views; 4-How Our Reality Got Its Start; Whence the Big Bang?; 5-Mind Over Matter: Glimpses of Different Realities; 6-In the Abyss; 7-Experimental Objections; 8-New Questions; Epilogue: Aligning with Reality; Index of Cited Names; Further Reading