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John D. Barrow | Philosophie | Oxford University Press | Date de parution: 1991 | ISBN-13: 9780192861085 | Couverture: Souple | Anglais | 398 pages
'an excellent and entertaining book. As with a koan, the result is a certain dizziness that comes of balancing at the crumbling edge of thought. Barrow leads us to that extreme with wit and grace, making the journey an enjoyable one."
New Scientist
Do there really exist laws of Nature out there waiting to be discovered? Are these laws the ultimate reality or merely pieces of temporary legislation enacted by ourselves to guide us through the jungle of experience? Why are they so well described by mathematics? Are they the same everywhere and everywhen? Is it even possible that they are an illusion? How does our own existence limit what can be known about the Universe?
This book presents a wide-ranging study of the evolving concept of laws of Nature. From the magical notions of primitive cultures to the latest ideas about chaos, black holes, inflation, and superstrings the author traces the gradual development of our concept of what laws of Nature are and how we come to know them.
"Written like a detective story, this book shows how scientists are creating a synthesis that will explain all the basic forces of nature in one theory.'
Observer
'an encyclopedia of current concerns in the philosophy of science, a clean cut through a thick birthday cake of ideas, the sort of book that an archaeologist in the distant future would be delighted to have unearthed... an educational wonder'
Times Literary Supplement
John D. Barrow is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Sussex. He is the co-author, with Frank Tipler, of The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (also available as an Oxford Paperback).
