Island of Knowledge Gleiser Marcelo
Island of Knowledge Gleiser Marcelo Do all questions have answers? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of…
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Island of Knowledge Gleiser Marcelo
Do all questions have answers? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what's out there. How much can we know about the world?
In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, the main tool we use to find answers, is fundamentally limited.These limits to our knowledge arise both from our tools of exploration and from the nature of physical reality: the speed of light, the uncertainty principle, the impossibility of seeing beyond the cosmic horizon, the incompleteness theorem, and our own limitations as an intelligent species. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. Recognizing limits in this way, Gleiser argues, is not a deterrent to progress or a surrendering to