The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality Peebles P. J. E.
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality Peebles P. J. E. From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in…
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The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality Peebles P. J. E.
From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical model of the ether to electric and magnetic fields, and from homogeneous matter to electrons and atoms. The Whole Truth is a personal reflection on this ongoing quest by one of the world's most esteemed cosmologists.What lies at the heart of physical science? Today, concepts like dark matter and dark energy further complicate and enrich the search for objective reality.
Is the concept of objective reality meaningful? What are the foundational ideas that inform and guide the enterprise? If so, do our established physical theories usefully approximate it? P. J. E.
Peebles takes on these and other big questions about the