Pythagoras' Trousers - 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 Pythagoras' Trousers write by Margaret Wertheim. This book was released on 1997. Pythagoras' Trousers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An "immensely accessible tour (which tells) how the physics lab became another Vatican with a no-girls-allowed sign on its door" (Susan Faludi) this spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise.
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.
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.
Figuring
Figuring - 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 Figuring write by Maria Popova. This book was released on 2019-02-05. Figuring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists—mostly women, mostly queer—whose public contribution have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson. Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman—and a tapestry of themes spanning music, feminism, the history of science, the rise and decline of religion, and how the intersection of astronomy, poetry, and Transcendentalist philosophy fomented the environmental movement.
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 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.
