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God and the New Physics

Autor Paul Davies
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 oct 1990
In God and the New Physics, Paul Davies explains how science has come of age, and can now offer a surer path to divinity than religion.

Science is now on the verge of answering our most profound questions about the nature of existence. Here Paul Davies explains how the far-reaching discoveries of recent physics are revolutionizing our world and, in particular, throwing light on many of the questions formerly posed by religion, such as:

Why is there a universe?
Where did we come from?
What is life?
How is the world organized?

Examining subjects from the creation to the soul, free will to time, black holes to miracles, he travels through science and religion to show us that there is more to the world than meets the eye.

'Excellent ... explains with fluent simplicity some of the profoundest questions of cosmology' - Daily Telegraph

'One of the finest science writers of this generation' - Independent

'Paul Davies is our best guide to this strange new world' - Observer

'A list of topics to which he refers would constitute an outline for a dictionary of contemporary scientific excitement. His style is clear, interesting, chatty' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140134629
ISBN-10: 014013462X
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: YEARLING
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, now based in South Australia. He is the author of some twenty award-winning books, including About Time and The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin of Life.

Recenzii

"Mr. Davies knows the arcana of physics the way a plumber knows wrenches, and he can make sense out of quite daunting ideas.... One of the most adept science writers on either side of the Atlantic." -- Timothy Ferris, T"he New York Times Book Review"

Cuprins


Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface


1 Science and religion in a changing world

2 Genesis

3 Did God create the universe?

4 Why is there a universe?

5 What is life? Holism vs reductionism

6 Mind and soul

7 The self

8 The quantum factor

9 Time

10 Freewill and determinism

11 The fundamental structure of matter

12 Accident or design?

13 Black holes and cosmic chaos

14 Miracles

15 The end of the universe

16 Is the universe a 'free lunch'?

17 The physicist's conception of nature

Footnotes

Select Bibliography

Index