Higher speculations : grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology / Helge Kragh.
| Author/creator | Kragh, Helge, 1944- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| Description | 411 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cases from the past. Beginnings of modern science ; A Victorian theory of everything ; Electrodynamics as a world view ; Rationalist cosmologies ; Cosmology and controversy ; The rise and fall of the Bootstrap Programme -- The present scene. Varying constants of nature ; New cyclic models of the universe ; Anthropic science ; The multiverse scenario ; String theory and quantum gravity ; Astrobiology and physical eschatology ; Summary : final theories and epistemic shifts. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-401) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011377091 |
| ISBN | 9780199599882 |
| ISBN | 0199599882 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | QB981 .K735 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |