Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science
Published on 24. August 2023
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-19-887855-1 (ISBN)
Description
Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emphasis on correcting widely held misconceptions, and a call to liberate science from 'private ownership' in cultural terms.
Quantum fields and the physics of the early universe are described in non-technical language, showing what science can and cannot say about origins. Darwinian evolution is then discussed, giving due weight both to variation and to the constraints which shape the possible outcomes.The text provides a liberating view of what science is telling us about the natural world and offers the next generation a balanced and liberating view of their own moral stature.
Quantum fields and the physics of the early universe are described in non-technical language, showing what science can and cannot say about origins. Darwinian evolution is then discussed, giving due weight both to variation and to the constraints which shape the possible outcomes.The text provides a liberating view of what science is telling us about the natural world and offers the next generation a balanced and liberating view of their own moral stature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
274 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-887855-1 (9780198878551)
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08/2023
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Person
Andrew Steane is a Professor of Physics at Oxford University. He performed pioneering experiments on the quantum physics of ultra-cold atomic clouds and established the ion trap quantum computing work in Oxford. He discovered quantum error correction and the CSS (Calderbank Shor Steane) codes, is an author of three undergraduate physics textbooks and three science and religion books. He is a recipient of the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics and the Trotter Prize of Texas A&M University.
Content
1: A candid friend
2: What is a quantum field?
3: Quantum fluctuation?
4: The vacuum as a dynamical system
5: The very early Universe
6: Nothing comes of nothing
7: Rubble and randomness
8: What science can and cannot do
9: Science, science fiction and the multiverse
10: Could it simply be?
11: Religious imagery
12: Sinking the selfish gene
13: The magician's box
14: Stepping out
15: Angels with dirty faces
16: Science and sensibility
17: Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
18: Fruit pie
19: Contemporary thought and evolution
20: Brightland
21: Getting past Brightland
2: What is a quantum field?
3: Quantum fluctuation?
4: The vacuum as a dynamical system
5: The very early Universe
6: Nothing comes of nothing
7: Rubble and randomness
8: What science can and cannot do
9: Science, science fiction and the multiverse
10: Could it simply be?
11: Religious imagery
12: Sinking the selfish gene
13: The magician's box
14: Stepping out
15: Angels with dirty faces
16: Science and sensibility
17: Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
18: Fruit pie
19: Contemporary thought and evolution
20: Brightland
21: Getting past Brightland