Farewell to Reality

Persuasive. Informationen zum Autor With a doctorate at the University of Oxford, Jim Baggot worked as a postgraduate research fellow at Oxford and at Stanford University in California. He returned to England to take up a lectureship in chemistry at the University of Reading. He worked in the oil industry for 11 years before setting up his own independent business and training consultancy. He has won the Marlow Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Glaxo Science Writer's prize in 1992. And writes often in UK newspapers and New Scientist magazine and has contributed to several BBC radio programmes. His previous books include: The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments , Atomic: The First War of Physics and A Beginner's Guide to Reality. Klappentext Praise for Higgs : 'Baggott doesn't shy away from difficult concepts, but his detailed explanation of how the Higgs mechanism gives particles mass is extremely elegant.' New Scientist Modern physics is heady stuff. It seems that barely a week goes by without some new, astounding science story; some revelation about hidden dimensions and multiple universes. But is any of this true? In Farewell to Reality , science writer Jim Baggott outlines the currently accepted or 'authorized' scientific version of physical reality. This description is astonishing in its scope and accuracy, but it is also full of problems. Baggott argues that in seeking to resolve these, contemporary theorists have crossed a boundary. They are suffering a 'Grand Delusion' - a belief that they can describe reality using mathematics alone, with no foundation in scientific fact. The result is 'fairytale' physics. A string of recent best-selling popular science books has helped to create the impression that fairy-tale physics is established science. Farewell to Reality provides a timely and much-needed antidote. Persuasive. Independent on Sunday A controversial popular science title in which Jim Baggott asks whether all that we currently know about the universe is based upon science or fantasy. Zusammenfassung A controversial popular science title in which Jim Baggott asks whether all that we currently know about the universe is based upon science or fantasy....

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Vorwort
A controversial popular science title in which Jim Baggott asks whether all that we currently know about the universe is based upon science or fantasy.

Autorentext

With a doctorate at the University of Oxford, Jim Baggot worked as a postgraduate research fellow at Oxford and at Stanford University in California. He returned to England to take up a lectureship in chemistry at the University of Reading. He worked in the oil industry for 11 years before setting up his own independent business and training consultancy. He has won the Marlow Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Glaxo Science Writer's prize in 1992. And writes often in UK newspapers and New Scientist magazine and has contributed to several BBC radio programmes.

His previous books include: The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments, Atomic: The First War of Physics and A Beginner's Guide to Reality.

Klappentext

Praise for Higgs: 'Baggott doesn't shy away from difficult concepts, but his detailed explanation of how the Higgs mechanism gives particles mass is extremely elegant.' New Scientist

Modern physics is heady stuff. It seems that barely a week goes by without some new, astounding science story; some revelation about hidden dimensions and multiple universes. But is any of this true?

In Farewell to Reality, science writer Jim Baggott outlines the currently accepted or 'authorized' scientific version of physical reality. This description is astonishing in its scope and accuracy, but it is also full of problems. Baggott argues that in seeking to resolve these, contemporary theorists have crossed a boundary. They are suffering a 'Grand Delusion' - a belief that they can describe reality using mathematics alone, with no foundation in scientific fact. The result is 'fairytale' physics.

A string of recent best-selling popular science books has helped to create the impression that fairy-tale physics is established science. Farewell to Reality provides a timely and much-needed antidote.