THE ISLAND OF KNOWLEDGE

Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to w ant to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what's out there. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marce lo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative concl usion: science, the main tool we use to find answers, is fundamentally limited. These limits to our knowledge arise both from our to ols of e...[Llegir més]