Physics on the Fringe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Physics on the Fringe write by Margaret Wertheim. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Physics on the Fringe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "outsider physicists," many without formal training and all convinced that they have found true alternative theories of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own complete theory of matter and energy and gravity that he demonstrates with experiments in his backyard,-with garbage cans and a disco fog machine he makes smoke rings to test his ideas about atoms. Captivated by the imaginative power of his theories and his resolutely DIY attitude, Wertheim has been following Carter's progress for the past decade. Centuries ago, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws of nature using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics has become mathematically inscrutable, accessible only to an elite few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature speaks a language we can all understand. Through a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's exploration of the bizarre world of fringe physics challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for.
Physics on the Fringe
Physics on the Fringe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Physics on the Fringe write by Margaret Wertheim. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Physics on the Fringe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1993, Jim Carter, a trailer park owner in Enumclaw, Washington, sent out to a select group of scientists a letter announcing the publication of a book in which he proposed a complete alternative theory of physics. Gravity and matter, the periodic table, and the creation of the universe-all these Carter explained through wildly creative ideas perfected through backyard experiments using garbage cans and a disco fog machine to make giant smoke rings. For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of Jim Carter and other mavericks and outsiders who invent alternate theories of the universe. By considering the motivations behind their do-it-yourself theories and homemade experiments, Wertheim raises the question of what role an amateur can play in relationship to science. Deeply human, literally fantastical, infused with wit and humor, Physics on the Fringe challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for.
On the Fringe
On the Fringe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Fringe write by Michael D. Gordin. This book was released on 2021. On the Fringe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Pseudoscience is not a real thing. The term is a negative category, always ascribed to somebody else's beliefs, not to characterize a doctrine one holds dear oneself. People who espouse fringe ideas never think of themselves as "pseudoscientists"; they think they are following the correct scientific doctrine, even if it is not mainstream. In that sense, there is no such thing as pseudoscience, just disagreements about what the right science is. This is a familiar phenomenon. No believer ever thinks she is a "heretic," for example, or an artist that he produces "bad art." Those are attacks presented by opponents. Yet pseudoscience is also real. The term of abuse is used quite frequently, sometimes even about ideas that are at the core of the scientific mainstream, and those labels have consequences. If the reputation of "pseudoscience" solidifies, then it is very hard for a doctrine to shed the bad reputation. The outcome is plenty of scorn and no legitimacy (or funding) to investigate one's theories. In this, "pseudoscience" is a lot like "heresy": if the label sticks, persecution follows"--
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace write by Margaret Wertheim. This book was released on 2000. The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cyberspace may seem an unlikely gateway for the soul, but as science commentator Wertheim argues in this "wonderfully provocative" ("Kirkus Reviews") book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. 37 illustrations.
God and the New Physics
God and the New Physics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God and the New Physics write by P. C. W. Davies. This book was released on 1984-10-16. God and the New Physics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that the discoveries of twentieth-century physics--relativity and the quantum theory--demand a radical reformulation of the fundamentals of reality and a way of thinking, that is closer to mysticism than materialism.
