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- catalog abstract "When physicists and others construct models to explain the phenomena and laws of nature, do those models actually simulate what's really out there in the world, or do they only synthesize the way we think the world is? And how does our cultural upbringing affect the way we think about the world? In this far-reaching and penetrating book, two world-class physicists, one born and raised in the West, the other in the Far East, examine these and many other intriguing questions not yet resolved by modern scientists. - Back cover.".
- catalog contributor b11039502.
- catalog contributor b11039503.
- catalog contributor b11039504.
- catalog contributor b11039505.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface : Knowledge and wisdom -- Prologue : The question -- Is the universe describable? Laws, principles, theories and models -- Is nature unreasonably mathematical? Mathematics, theories and reality -- Is the world symmetrical? Friezes, particles and groups -- Why do things happen? Causality, synchronicity and all that -- Does time go forward? Past and future -- Why is there left and right? Chirality, complexity and emergent properties -- Is the universe weird? Quantum mechanics -- Is there an answer? Theories of everything -- How did we get here? Cosmology -- What do you mean? Metaphors, analogies, culture wars -- Can we make any money off this? Applied quantum mechanics -- Commentaries on the debates.".
- catalog description "When physicists and others construct models to explain the phenomena and laws of nature, do those models actually simulate what's really out there in the world, or do they only synthesize the way we think the world is? And how does our cultural upbringing affect the way we think about the world? In this far-reaching and penetrating book, two world-class physicists, one born and raised in the West, the other in the Far East, examine these and many other intriguing questions not yet resolved by modern scientists. - Back cover.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 320 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Doubt and certainty.".
- catalog identifier "0738200069 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Doubt and certainty.".
- catalog isPartOf "Helix book.".
- catalog isPartOf "Helix books".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books,".
- catalog relation "Doubt and certainty.".
- catalog subject "530/.01 21".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, Asian.".
- catalog subject "Physics Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Q175 .R56494 1998".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface : Knowledge and wisdom -- Prologue : The question -- Is the universe describable? Laws, principles, theories and models -- Is nature unreasonably mathematical? Mathematics, theories and reality -- Is the world symmetrical? Friezes, particles and groups -- Why do things happen? Causality, synchronicity and all that -- Does time go forward? Past and future -- Why is there left and right? Chirality, complexity and emergent properties -- Is the universe weird? Quantum mechanics -- Is there an answer? Theories of everything -- How did we get here? Cosmology -- What do you mean? Metaphors, analogies, culture wars -- Can we make any money off this? Applied quantum mechanics -- Commentaries on the debates.".
- catalog title "Doubt and certainty : the celebrated academy : debates on science, mysticism, reality, in general on the knowable and unknowable, with particular forays into such esoteric matters as the mind fluid, the behavior of the stock market, and the disposition of a quantum mechanical sphinx, to name a few / Tony Rothman and George Sudarshan ; with illustrations by Shannon K. Comins.".
- catalog type "text".