FASHION, FAITH AND FANTASY IN THE NEW PHYSICS

What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? S urely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bes tselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just as susceptible to these f orces as anyone else. In this provocative book, he argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even esse ntial in...[Llegir més]