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- catalog abstract ""Seeking Ultimates takes us on a journey which explores the limits of our scientific knowledge with an emphasis on the gaps which are left. The book starts with everyday concepts such as temperature and proceeds to energy, the Periodic Table and then to more advanced ideas. Peter T. Landsberg examines the nature of time and entropy, chaos, quantum theory, cosmology and some aspects of mathematics, confirming that our understanding is necessarily incomplete."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11678715.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Seeking Ultimates takes us on a journey which explores the limits of our scientific knowledge with an emphasis on the gaps which are left. The book starts with everyday concepts such as temperature and proceeds to energy, the Periodic Table and then to more advanced ideas. Peter T. Landsberg examines the nature of time and entropy, chaos, quantum theory, cosmology and some aspects of mathematics, confirming that our understanding is necessarily incomplete."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. What this book is about -- 2. There is no free lunch. Temperature and energy: science for the environment / Count Rumford -- 3. Painting by numbers. Elements and particles: science as prediction / Dmitri Mendeleev -- 4. Why you cannot unscramble an egg. Time and entropy: science and the unity of knowledge / Ludwig Boltzmann -- 5. How a butterfly caused a tornado. Chaos and life: science as synthesis / Charles Darwin -- 6. Now you see it, now you don't. Quantum theory: science and the invention of concepts / Max Planck -- 7. The galactic highway. Cosmology: science as history / Albert Einstein -- 8. Weirdness or purity. Mathematics: science as numbers / Arthur Eddington -- 9. The last question. Does God exist? / Blaise Pascal".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xi, 314 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0750306564 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0750306572 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia, PA : Institute of Physics Pub.,".
- catalog subject "530 21".
- catalog subject "Physics.".
- catalog subject "QC23 .L324 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. What this book is about -- 2. There is no free lunch. Temperature and energy: science for the environment / Count Rumford -- 3. Painting by numbers. Elements and particles: science as prediction / Dmitri Mendeleev -- 4. Why you cannot unscramble an egg. Time and entropy: science and the unity of knowledge / Ludwig Boltzmann -- 5. How a butterfly caused a tornado. Chaos and life: science as synthesis / Charles Darwin -- 6. Now you see it, now you don't. Quantum theory: science and the invention of concepts / Max Planck -- 7. The galactic highway. Cosmology: science as history / Albert Einstein -- 8. Weirdness or purity. Mathematics: science as numbers / Arthur Eddington -- 9. The last question. Does God exist? / Blaise Pascal".
- catalog title "Seeking ultimates : an intuitive guide to physics / Peter Theodore Landsberg.".
- catalog type "text".