Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits /
Barrow, John D., 1952-2020.
Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits / John D. Barrow. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index.
The art of the impossible -- The power of negative thinking -- Of faces and games -- Those for whom all things are possible -- Paradox -- Visual paradox -- Linguistic paradox -- Limits to certainty -- A cosmic speed limit -- The hope of progress -- Over the rainbow -- The voyage to Polynesia via Telegraph Avenue -- Progress and prejudice -- The big idea of unlimited knowledge -- Negativism -- Some nineteenth-century ideas of the impossible -- Back to the future -- What do we mean by the limits of science? -- Possible futures -- Higgledy-piggledyology -- Selective and absolute limits -- Will we be builders or surgeons? -- The futures market -- How many discoveries are there still to be made? -- Being human -- What are minds for? -- Counting on words -- Modern art and the death of a culture -- Complexity matching: climbing Mount Improbable -- Intractability -- The frontier spirit -- The end of diversity -- Does science always bring about its own demise? -- Death and the death of science -- The psychology of limits -- Technological limits -- Is the Universe economically viable? -- Why we are where we are -- Some consequences of size -- The forces of Nature -- Manipulating the Universe -- Criticality: the riddle of the sands -- Demons: counting the cost -- Two types of future -- Is technological progress inevitable (or always desirable)?--a fable -- Cosmological limits -- The last horizon -- Inflation--still crazy after all these years -- Chaotic inflation -- Is the Universe open or closed? -- Eternal inflation.
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Explores the frontiers of knowledge, discussing the restrictions that may be imposed upon a full understanding of the physical universe by the limits of technology, computers, cost, and complexity; and considering how the mind's awareness of the impossible influences perceptions of reality.
Electronic reproduction.
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2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
058513362X (electronic bk.) 9780585133621 (electronic bk.) 9780195351385 (electronic bk.) 019535138X (electronic bk.) (TSP)
ocm43476755
Science--Philosophy.
Limit (Logic)
Gödel's theorem.
Limite (Logique)
Théorème de Gödel.
SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Gödel's theorem.
Limit (Logic)
Science--Philosophy.
Unmöglichkeit
Wissenschaft
Natuurwetenschappen.
Onmogelijkheid.
Sciences - General.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis.
Wissenschaftstheorie.
Naturwissenschaften--Philosophie.
Philosophie--Naturwissenschaften.
Erkenntnistheorie.
Naturwissenschaften.
Philosophie.
Unmöglichkeit Wissenschaft
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Q175 / .B2245 1998eb
501
Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits / John D. Barrow. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index.
The art of the impossible -- The power of negative thinking -- Of faces and games -- Those for whom all things are possible -- Paradox -- Visual paradox -- Linguistic paradox -- Limits to certainty -- A cosmic speed limit -- The hope of progress -- Over the rainbow -- The voyage to Polynesia via Telegraph Avenue -- Progress and prejudice -- The big idea of unlimited knowledge -- Negativism -- Some nineteenth-century ideas of the impossible -- Back to the future -- What do we mean by the limits of science? -- Possible futures -- Higgledy-piggledyology -- Selective and absolute limits -- Will we be builders or surgeons? -- The futures market -- How many discoveries are there still to be made? -- Being human -- What are minds for? -- Counting on words -- Modern art and the death of a culture -- Complexity matching: climbing Mount Improbable -- Intractability -- The frontier spirit -- The end of diversity -- Does science always bring about its own demise? -- Death and the death of science -- The psychology of limits -- Technological limits -- Is the Universe economically viable? -- Why we are where we are -- Some consequences of size -- The forces of Nature -- Manipulating the Universe -- Criticality: the riddle of the sands -- Demons: counting the cost -- Two types of future -- Is technological progress inevitable (or always desirable)?--a fable -- Cosmological limits -- The last horizon -- Inflation--still crazy after all these years -- Chaotic inflation -- Is the Universe open or closed? -- Eternal inflation.
Use copy
Explores the frontiers of knowledge, discussing the restrictions that may be imposed upon a full understanding of the physical universe by the limits of technology, computers, cost, and complexity; and considering how the mind's awareness of the impossible influences perceptions of reality.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
058513362X (electronic bk.) 9780585133621 (electronic bk.) 9780195351385 (electronic bk.) 019535138X (electronic bk.) (TSP)
ocm43476755
Science--Philosophy.
Limit (Logic)
Gödel's theorem.
Limite (Logique)
Théorème de Gödel.
SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Gödel's theorem.
Limit (Logic)
Science--Philosophy.
Unmöglichkeit
Wissenschaft
Natuurwetenschappen.
Onmogelijkheid.
Sciences - General.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis.
Wissenschaftstheorie.
Naturwissenschaften--Philosophie.
Philosophie--Naturwissenschaften.
Erkenntnistheorie.
Naturwissenschaften.
Philosophie.
Unmöglichkeit Wissenschaft
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Q175 / .B2245 1998eb
501