'A breath-taking panorama.' The Sunday Times 'Those seeking a grand
overview of science's greatest hits over the past century will find
it here.' The Washington Post 'Convincing ... A provocative history
probes the connections that are helping to unify scientific
disciplines. ... Watson examines an impressive array of connections
... Whether you identify as a biologist, an astrophysicist, or a
mathematician, one thing's for certain: We're all ultimately
working with the same fabric.' Science 'Anyone interested in
science will enjoy this fascinating, fast-paced, intellectual
journey through the history of scientific ideas. Watson masterfully
weaves the concept of convergence through covering an astonishing
breadth of scientific and cultural domains.' Mario Livio,
astrophysicist, author of Brilliant Blunders and Why? Convergence
is a history of modern science with an original and significant
twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different
beginnings, and disparate areas of interest have been coming
together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing, to
identify one extraordinary master narrative, one overwhelming
interlocking coherent story: the history of the universe. Intimate
connections between physics and chemistry have been revealed as
have the links between quantum chemistry and molecular biology.
Astronomy has been augmented by particle physics, psychology has
been increasingly aligned with physics, with chemistry and even
with economics. Genetics has been harmonised with linguistics,
botany with archaeology, climatology with myth. This is a simple
insight but one with profound consequences. Convergence is, as
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg has put it, 'The
deepest thing about the universe.' This book does not, however,
tell the story by beginning at the beginning and ending at the end.
It is much more revealing, more convincing, and altogether more
thrilling to tell the story as it emerged, as it began to fall into
place, piece by piece, converging tentatively at first, but then
with increasing speed, vigour and confidence. The overlaps and
interdependence of the sciences, the emerging orderthat they are
gradually uncovering, is without question the most enthralling
aspect of twenty-first-century science.
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