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Lake Views: this world and the universe

By: Weinberg, StevenMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Massachusetts, U.S.: Harvard University Press, [c2009]ISBN: 9780674062306

Contents:

1. Waiting for a final theory 2. Can science explain everything? Anything? 3. Peace at last in the science wars 4. The future of science, and the universe 5. Dark energy 6. How great equations survive 7. On missile defense 8. The growing nuclear danger 9. Is the universe a computer? 10. Foreword to A century of nature 11. Ambling toward apocalypse 12. What price glory? 13. Four golden lessons 14. The wrong stuff 15. A turning point? 16. About Oppenheimer 17. Einstein's search for unification 18. Einstein's mistakes 19. Living in the multiverse 20. Against the boycott 21. A deadly certitude 22. To the postdocs 23. Science or spacemen 24. Israel and the liberals 25. Without God

Summary: A collection of articles by Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg in which he reflects on and discusses topics such as cosmology; political and religious issues around the world; Albert Einstein; and missile defense systems.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	ICTS	General Sc	Rack No 3	Q171 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	Available	Billno:Jayashree/NCBS Bks/ Mar13; Billdate: 2011-2012		00075

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1. Waiting for a final theory
2. Can science explain everything? Anything?
3. Peace at last in the science wars
4. The future of science, and the universe
5. Dark energy
6. How great equations survive
7. On missile defense
8. The growing nuclear danger
9. Is the universe a computer?
10. Foreword to A century of nature
11. Ambling toward apocalypse
12. What price glory?
13. Four golden lessons
14. The wrong stuff
15. A turning point?
16. About Oppenheimer
17. Einstein's search for unification
18. Einstein's mistakes
19. Living in the multiverse
20. Against the boycott
21. A deadly certitude
22. To the postdocs
23. Science or spacemen
24. Israel and the liberals
25. Without God

A collection of articles by Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg in which he reflects on and discusses topics such as cosmology; political and religious issues around the world; Albert Einstein; and missile defense systems.

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