Dreams of a Final Theory
Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
Steven Weinberg(Author)
Steven Weinberg(Speaker)
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published on 13. April 2000
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978-0-7528-3972-1 (ISBN)
Description
Dreams of a Final Theory tells the story of a great intellectual adventure of our time: the search for nature's final laws and the final answer to our questions about why nature is the way it is. Weinberg, 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 defence 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 also narrates a personal account of the search for the laws of nature, and shares with us glimpses that scientists have had from time to time that there is something behind the blackboard, that there is a deeper truth foreshadowing a final theory.
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Edition
Abridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
Abridged edition
Dimensions
Height: 138 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Duration
Dauer: 180 min
Weight
131 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-3972-1 (9780752839721)
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Steven Weinberg received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in unifying two of the fundamental forces of nature. Since 1982 he been Josey Regental Professor of Science at the University of Texas.