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God versus Particle Physics电子书

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作       者:Davies, John

出  版  社:Andrews UK

出版时间:2013-09-04

字       数:40.9万

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The book presents the conclusions of a psychologist seeking to make sense of contemporary particle physics as described in a number of popular science texts and media articles, written by physicists, seeking to explain the workings of the sub-atomic world. The accounts, it is argued, are a) mutually exclusive and contradictory, and b) metaphysical or magical in essence.Themes of the book include: a discussion of the way we allow physicists to invent things that have no perceivable qualities, on the grounds that they 'must' be there because otherwise their preconceptions are wrong or their sums don't work; that, from a psychological perspective, contemporary theory in particle physics has the same properties as any other act of faith, and the same limitations as belief in God; and that physics has now reached a point at which increasingly physicists research their own psychological constructions rather than anything which is unambiguously 'there' or real.It encourages people to ask basic questions of the type we often use to question the existence of God; such as 'Where is he/it?', 'Show me?', 'Do it then', 'When did it happen?', 'How do you know it exists?', and so on, and suggests that people take a leaf out of Dawkins' text, The God Delusion, but apply it to high-end physics as much as to religious dogma: turning water into wine is a mere conjuring trick compared to producing an entire universe out of nothing.
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Cover

Front matter

Title page

Copyright page

Body matter

Chapter 1: Prologue

Chapter 2: The No-Score Draw

Chapter 3: Ayers Rock

Chapter 4: The Big Bang: Matter of Fact or Metaphysics?

Chapter 5: How Did It All Happen?

Chapter 6: Know Thyself

Chapter 7: Waves, Words, Bits, and Boundaries

Chapter 8: Four Kinds of Physics

Chapter 9: Uncertainty, Parallel Universes, and Common Sense

Chapter 10: Reductionism: The Search for the Constituents of Stuff

Chapter 11: Postulating the Scientifically Unacceptable

Chapter 12: Positivism: Three Cheers for Philosophy

Chapter 13: The Search for Truth

Chapter 14: Keeping Up Appearances

Chapter 15: Facts, Figures, and Feasibility

Chapter 16: The CERN Metaphorical-Hypothetical-Particle Super-collider

Chapter 17: Hello? Is Anybody There?

Chapter 18: Please Hold. An Operator Will Be With You As Soon As Possible

Chapter 19: Extra Time…

Chapter 20: A Stairway to the Stars

Back matter

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