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Higher Speculations - Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology (Hardcover)
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Higher Speculations - Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology (Hardcover)
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Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of
everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its
totality. This account presents these theories in their historical
contexts, from little known hypotheses from the past to modern
developments such as the theory of superstrings, the anthropic
principle and ideas of many universes, and uses them to
problematize the limits of scientific knowledge. Do claims to
theories of everything belong to science at all? Which are the
epistemic standards on which an alleged scientific theory of the
universe - or the multiverse - is to be judged?
Such questions are currently being discussed by physicists and
cosmologists, but rarely within a historical perspective. This book
argues that these questions have a history and that knowledge of
the historical development of 'higher speculations' may inform and
qualify the current debate of the nature and limits of scientific
explanation.
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