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Convergence - The Deepest Idea in the Universe (Paperback)
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Convergence - The Deepest Idea in the Universe (Paperback)
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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 order that they are gradually uncovering, is without
question the most enthralling aspect of twenty-first-century
science.
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