Science a la Mode : : Physical Fashions and Fictions / / Tony Rothman.
These iconoclastic and witty essays are about what happens when scientists jump on band-wagons. Tony Rothman applies creative skepticism to contemporary fashions in science, including the "standard model" Big Bang theory, geodesic domes, the concept of nuclear winter, and sociological appl...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- 1. E GARDEN OF COSMOLOGICAL DELIGHTS
- 2. METAFLATION ?
- 3. Geodesics, Domes, and Spacetime
- 4. The Evolution of Entropy
- 5. A Memoir of Nuclear Winter
- 6. Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois
- NOTES
- INDEX