From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on
the quest for objective reality in natural science A century ago,
thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical
theories that keep changing, from a mechanical model of the ether
to electric and magnetic fields, and from homogeneous matter to
electrons and atoms. Today, concepts like dark matter and dark
energy further complicate and enrich the search for objective
reality. The Whole Truth is a personal reflection on this ongoing
quest by one of the world's most esteemed cosmologists. What lies
at the heart of physical science? What are the foundational ideas
that inform and guide the enterprise? Is the concept of objective
reality meaningful? If so, do our established physical theories
usefully approximate it? P. J. E. Peebles takes on these and other
big questions about the nature of science, drawing on a lifetime of
experience as a leading physicist and using cosmology as an
example. He traces the history of thought about the nature of
physical science since Einstein, and succinctly lays out the
fundamental working assumptions. Through a careful examination of
the general theory of relativity, Einstein's cosmological
principle, and the theory of an expanding universe, Peebles shows
the evidence that we are discovering the nature of reality in
successive approximations through increasingly rigorous scrutiny. A
landmark work, The Whole Truth is essential reading for anyone
interested in the practice of science.
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