Impossibility: the limits of science and the science of limits
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| Abstract: | Explores the frontiers of knowledge, discussing the restrictions that may be imposed upon a full understanding of the physical universe by the limits of technology, computers, cost, and complexity; and considering how the mind's awareness of the impossible influences perceptions of reality. |
| Umfang: | XIII, 279 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0198518900 0198503784 |
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| adam_text | IMPOSSIBILITY THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF LIMITS JOHN D.
BARROW ASTRONOMY CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS *
OXFORD 1998 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE 1 THE POWER OF
NEGATIVE THINKING 1 OF FACES AND GAMES 3 THOSE FOR WHOM ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE 7 PARADOX 12 VISUAL PARADOX 13 LINGUISTIC PARADOX 19 LIMITS TO
CERTAINTY 21 A COSMIC SPEED LIMIT 24 SUMMARY 26 CHAPTER 2: THE HOPE OF
PROGRESS 27 OVER THE RAINBOW 27 THE VOYAGE TO POLYNESIA VIA TELEGRAPH
AVENUE 31 PROGRESS AND PREJUDICE 37 THE BIG IDEA OF UNLIMITED KNOWLEDGE
41 NEGATIVISM 45 SOME NINETEENTH-CENTURY IDEAS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE 48
SUMMARY 55 CHAPTER 3: BACK TO THE FUTURE 57 WHAT DO WE MEAN BY THE
LIMITS OF SCIENCE? 47 POSSIBLE FUTURES 58 HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDYOLOGY 65
SELECTIVE AND ABSOLUTE LIMITS 68 WILL WE BE BUILDERS OR SURGEONS? 70 THE
FUTURES MARKET 72 HOW MANY DISCOVERIES ARE THERE STILL TO BE MADE? 83
SUMMARY 84 CHAPTER 4: BEING HUMAN 85 WHAT ARE MINDS FOR? 85 XLL CONTENTS
COUNTING ON WORDS 91 MODERN ART AND THE DEATH OF A CULTURE 95 COMPLEXITY
MATCHING: CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE 96 INTRACTABILITY 100 THE FRONTIER
SPIRIT 107 THE END OF DIVERSITY 109 DOES SCIENCE ALWAYS BRING ABOUT ITS
OWN DEMISE? ILL DEATH AND THE DEATH OF SCIENCE 113 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
LIMITS 114 SUMMARY 116 CHAPTER 5: TECHNOLOGICAL LIMITS 118 IS THE
UNIVERSE ECONOMICALLY VIABLE? 118 WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE 120 SOME
CONSEQUENCES OF SIZE 122 THE FORCES OF NATURE 125 MANIPULATING THE
UNIVERSE 128 CRITICALITY: THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS 138 DEMONS: COUNTING
THE COST 142 TWO TYPES OF FUTURE 147 IS TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
INEVITABLE (OR ALWAYS DESIRABLE)?*A FABLE 150 SUMMARY 153 CHAPTER 6:
COSMOLOGICAL LIMITS 155 THE LAST HORIZON 155 INFLATION*STILL CRAZY AFTER
ALL THESE YEARS 164 CHAOTIC INFLATION 169 IS THE UNIVERSE OPEN OR
CLOSED? 170 ETERNAL INFLATION 171 THE NATURAL SELECTION OF UNIVERSES 174
TOPOLOGY 176 DID THE UNIVERSE HAVE A BEGINNING? 178 NAKED SINGULARITIES:
THE FINAL FRONTIER 182 DIMENSIONS 184 SYMMETRY-BREAKING 185 SUMMARY 188
CHAPTER 7: DEE P LIMITS 190 PATTERNS IN REALITY 190 PARADOXES 195
CONTENTS XLLL CONSISTENCY 197 TIME TRAVEL: IS THE UNIVERSE SAFE FOR
HISTORIANS? 199 COMPLETENESS - 207 IMPOSSIBLE CONSTRUCTIONS 211
METAPHORICAL IMPOSSIBILITIES 215 SUMMARY 216 CHAPTER 8: IMPOSSIBILITY
AND US 218 GODEL S THEOREM AND PHYSICS 218 DOES GODEL STYMIE PHYSICS?
221 GODEL, LOGIC, AND THE HUMAN MIND 230 THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL 232
THE REACTION GAME 236 MATHEMATICS THAT COMES ALIVE 238 A STRANGER SORT
OF IMPOSSIBILITY 239 THE ARROW IMPOSSIBILITY THEOREM 242 SUMMARY 246
CHAPTER 9: IMPOSSIBILITY: TAKING STOCK 248 TELLING WHAT IS FROM WHAT
ISN T 248 NOTES 253 INDEX 275
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