The Whole Truth : : A Cosmologist’s Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality / / P. J. E. Peebles.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE On Science and Reality
- CHAPTER TWO The Social Nature of Physics
- CHAPTER THREE The General Theory of Relativity
- CHAPTER FOUR Einstein’s Cosmological Principle
- CHAPTER FIVE The Hot Big Bang
- CHAPTER SIX The ΛCDM Theory
- CHAPTER SEVEN Lessons from a Scientific Advance
- REFERENCES
- INDEX