A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe

Gleiser, Marcelo

ISBN 10: 1439108323 / ISBN 13: 9781439108321

Edité par Free Press, 2010

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N° de réf. du vendeur 1439108323-11-34586248

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• Titre: A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
• Éditeur: Free Press
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1439108323
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781439108321
• Reliure: hardcover
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 14 onces

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Book by Gleiser Marcelo

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The search for universal truth, the underlying ""oneness"" connecting all things, has been the abiding obsession of philosophers and alchemists, prophets and string theorists. We would cross a bridge from Occam's razor to quantum theory on a path of symmetry and elegance toward a grand, unifying Theory of Everything-a place, just over the horizon, where the physical laws governing very large bodies (Einstein's theory of relativity) and those governing tiny ones (quantum mechanics) unite in a single, orderly framework. Yet somehow, despite the strivings of some of history's best minds, it turns out that the universe is probably not elegant. It is most likely gloriously messy. In A Tear at the Edge of Creation, the award-winning physicist Marcelo Gleiser argues that the quest for a Theory of Everything is fundamentally misguided: imbalance, asymmetry, and imperfection-not order-are the engines of creation. In this lucid, down-to-earth narrative, which has been translated into twelve languages, Gleiser walks us through the basic and cutting-edge science that fueled his own transformation from unifier to doubter: a fascinating scientific quest that leads him-and us-to a new understanding of what it is to be human.