Dreams of a Final TheoryWeinberg, the 1979 Nobel Prize-winner in physics, imagines the shape of a final theory and the effect its discovery would have on the human spirit. He gives a defense of reductionism--the impulse to trace explanations of natural phenomena to deeper and deeper levels--and examines the curious relevance of beauty and symmetry in scientific theories. Weinberg gives a personal account of the search for the laws of nature, and shares glimpses scientists have had from time to time that there is a deeper truth foreshadowing a final theory. For another side of the discussion, see David Lindley's The End of Physics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
ON A PIECE OF CHALK | 19 |
TWO CHEERS FOR REDUCTIONISM | 51 |
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| Title | Dreams of a Final Theory |
| Author | Steven Weinberg |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1992 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | Jan 19, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0679419233, 9780679419235 |
| Length | 334 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / General |
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