Just as Henry David Thoreau traveled a great deal in Concord,
Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the
world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. In
"Lake Views" Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent
theoretical physicist alive today, continues the wide-ranging
reflections that have also earned him a reputation as, in the words
of "New York Times" reporter James Glanz, a powerful writer of
prose that can illuminate and sting.
This collection presents Weinberg s views on topics ranging from
problems of cosmology to assorted world issues military, political,
and religious. Even as he moves beyond the bounds of science, each
essay reflects his experience as a theoretical physicist. And as in
the celebrated "Facing Up," the essays express a viewpoint that is
rationalist, reductionist, realist, and secular. A new introduction
precedes each essay, explaining how it came to be written and
bringing it up to date where necessary.
As an essayist, Weinberg insists on seeing things as they are,
without despair and with good humor. Sure to provoke his readers
postmodern cultural critics, enthusiasts for manned space flight or
missile defense, economic conservatives, sociologists of science,
anti-Zionists, and religious zealots this book nonetheless offers
the pleasure of a sustained encounter with one of the most
interesting scientific minds of our time.
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