Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 August 2023
- ISBN 9780198878551
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 224x145x16 mm
- Weight 414 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 illustrations 439
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Short description:
Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emphasis on correcting widely held misconceptions, and a call to liberate science from 'private ownership' in cultural terms.
MoreLong description:
Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emphasis on correcting widely held misconceptions, and a call to liberate science from 'private ownership' in cultural terms.
Quantum fields and the physics of the early universe are described in non-technical language, showing what science can and cannot say about origins. Darwinian evolution is then discussed, giving due weight both to variation and to the constraints which shape the possible outcomes.The text provides a liberating view of what science is telling us about the natural world and offers the next generation a balanced and liberating view of their own moral stature.
Table of Contents:
A candid friend
What is a quantum field?
Quantum fluctuation?
The vacuum as a dynamical system
The very early Universe
Nothing comes of nothing
Rubble and randomness
What science can and cannot do
Science, science fiction and the multiverse
Could it simply be?
Religious imagery
Sinking the selfish gene
The magician's box
Stepping out
Angels with dirty faces
Science and sensibility
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
Fruit pie
Contemporary thought and evolution
Brightland
Getting past Brightland
